Lakota · Lakȟótiyapi
Hub 8 verified age-safe resources · revitalization cluster. A short orientation plus a verified resource table — not a generated essay.
About Lakota
- Language family
- Siouan
- Where it's spoken
- The northern Great Plains, chiefly South Dakota and North Dakota
- Speakers
- a few thousand speakers, an endangered language
Lakota is one of three closely related Dakotan dialects, along with Dakota and Nakota, that together form part of the wider Siouan family spread across the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley. It was never written traditionally, and standardized writing systems are a 20th-century development built mainly for teaching. Language-nest immersion programs on Lakota reservations are the main effort keeping fluent speakers coming up behind the elder generation.
| Resource | Type | Levels | Cost | Verified |
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Forvo pronunciations
Native-speaker pronunciations.
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reference | A1-C2 | freemium | 2026-07-22 |
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Omniglot writing system overview
Script and orthography orientation.
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reference | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |