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Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe.〔(Indigenous Languages Spoken in the United States )〕〔(Statistics Canada: 2006 Census )〕 ==Regional variation== Sioux has three major regional varieties, with various sub-varieties: # Lakota ( Lakȟóta, Teton, Teton Sioux) # Western Dakota ( Yankton-Yanktonai or Dakȟóta, and erroneously classified, for a very long time, as "Nakota"〔for a report on the long-established blunder of misnaming “Nakota” the Yankton and the Yanktonai, see the article Nakota〕) # * Yankton (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ) # * Yanktonai (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna) # Eastern Dakota ( Santee-Sisseton or Dakhóta) # * Santee (Isáŋyáthi: Bdewákhathuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute) # * Sisseton (Sisíthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ) Yankton-Yanktonai (Western Dakota) stands between Santee-Sisseton (Eastern Dakota) and Lakota within the dialect continuum. It is phonetically closer to Santee-Sisseton but lexically and grammatically it is much closer to Lakota. For this reason Lakota and Western Dakota are much more mutually intelligible than they are with Eastern Dakota. The assumed extent of mutual intelligibility is usually overestimated by speakers of the language. While Lakota and Yankton-Yanktonai speakers understand each other to a great extent, they each find it difficult to follow Santee-Sisseton speakers. Closely related to the Sioux language are the Assiniboine and Stoney languages, whose speakers use the self-designation term Nakhóta or Nakhóda. Speakers of Lakota and Dakota have more difficulty understanding each of the two Nakoda languages (Assiniboine and Stoney). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sioux language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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