Lakota language

E104445

Native American language Siouan language indigenous language of North America

The Lakota language is a Native American Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people, known for its rich oral tradition and ongoing revitalization efforts.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Lakota language canonical	18
Lakota	15

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language ⓘ Siouan language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Dakota language ⓘ Assiniboine language ⓘ surface form: Nakota language
country	Canada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalRole	central to Lakota identity ⓘ medium of traditional law and customs ⓘ vehicle for transmission of Lakota worldview ⓘ
endonym	Dakota ⓘ surface form: Lakȟótiyapi
ethnicGroup	Lakota language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lakota
glottocode	lako1247 ⓘ
hasFeature	SOV basic word order ⓘ ablaut system ⓘ animacy-based grammar ⓘ aspirated stops ⓘ ceremonial vocabulary ⓘ classifiers in verbs ⓘ complex verb templates ⓘ demonstrative system with distance contrasts ⓘ directional and locative verb prefixes ⓘ ejective consonants ⓘ inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns ⓘ kinship terminology system ⓘ nasal vowels ⓘ noun incorporation ⓘ oral storytelling tradition ⓘ pitch accent ⓘ postpositions ⓘ productive derivational morphology ⓘ pronominal affixes on verbs ⓘ rich set of enclitics and particles ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ switch-reference-like discourse tracking ⓘ verb-final clauses ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasOrganization	Lakota Language Consortium ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	lkt ⓘ
languageFamily	Siouan languages ⓘ surface form: Siouan language family
region	Prairie ecozone ⓘ surface form: Canadian Prairies Minnesota ⓘ Montana ⓘ Nebraska ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ
revitalizationStatus	subject of active revitalization efforts ⓘ supported by community language classes ⓘ supported by language immersion programs ⓘ supported by online learning resources ⓘ taught in some tribal schools ⓘ taught in some universities ⓘ
scriptStandardization	modern standardized orthography developed in late 20th century ⓘ
spokenBy	Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota people
subfamily	Otoe ⓘ surface form: Missouri River Siouan
usedIn	ceremonies ⓘ contemporary media ⓘ oral histories ⓘ prayers ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Lakota language
Description of subject: The Lakota language is a Native American Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people, known for its rich oral tradition and ongoing revitalization efforts.

Referenced by (33)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sioux people → traditionalLanguage → Lakota language ⓘ

Siouan languages → majorLanguage → Lakota language ⓘ

Ho-Chunk language → relatedLanguage → Lakota language ⓘ

Sitting Bull → languageSpoken → Lakota language ⓘ