About the Lakota/Dakota (Sioux) language

Today, we embark on a journey into a language, or perhaps three dialects, or even three languages, that were spoken in Northern America long before English. We're going to explore the Sioux language, though the term "Sioux" has been falling out of usage recently. These days people refer to this language as Lakota and Dakota (those are the names of the two main dialects). It's was a fascinating language to research and I hope you find it interesting to learn about it too!
Videos used:
Dances With Wolves (1990): Sioux (Lakota) Language Vs. Pawnee
• Dances With Wolves (19...
Lakota Lullaby • Lakota Song • Cover by Alexia Evellyn
• Lakota Lullaby • Lakot...
Messege from Dave Swallow Jr. in Lakota language
• Messege from Dave Swal...
#nativeamerican #lakota #dakota

[@jaredwoods2361]

Hoka!! ❤ Wakpa Waste Oyanke ematanhan na le wanblake cha lila iyomakhipi yelo! Lakhota here from Cheyenne River Wakpa Waste Oyanke. Even with the technical errors pointed out in the comments, it makes my heart glad to see our language survives and that others have taken an interest in it. Wophila thanka Julie!!

[@PrairieGirlRocks]

Jared! I’m a very basic speaker up here near FortBelknap I can translate most of what you just said, although it’s a little different than it would be said up here! 🤍

[@gregor-samsa]

Germany here. There is no prompt to have the comment in Dakota? translated in German or English what is often the case.

[@OnASeasideMission]

Shwmae Jared (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) The native people of North America have fascinated me since I learned that there was no connection between History and Hollywood. I have to say, that my own Welsh is very basic. But I keep at it, because a dead language is the end of a world. Fortunately, Welsh is making some headway , after centuries of prejudice, indifference and deliberate suppression. We're a country about the size of New Jersey with a pop close to 3.2M and about 0.5M regular Welsh speakers. But that took a determined political campaign starting in the 60s, with a tipyn bach o (little bit of) civil disobedience. (How would your state and fed governments feel about some civil disobedience?) Loved seeing this topic come up on my feed and will be looking for more. Hwyl fawr, brawd. (James)

[@isabelaraujo4825]

this is how the llc drama started tho by letting these colonizers in

[@jaredwoods2361]

@@isabelaraujo4825 It will always happen. There will always be those who use us, just as there will always be those who truly try to help us. We cannot shut everyone out forever... I have, in my time, met more than one bad Lakota too. We have to do our best together, stand together as well as we can regardless of our background. This is WoLakota, the togetherness of our brothers and sisters here on Unci Makha. Mitakuye oyasin

[@Buzzygirl63]

I took Dakota in college and studied it on my own after that. Dakota was and is one of the languages spoken by some Native tribes in my home state. There are many places in the Midwestern US with Dakota/Lakota names. I still have my English-Dakota and Dakota-English dictionaries. I didn't find the language that difficult to learn. The letter sounds are consistent and don't change (like in English) so one letter = one sound. The hardest parts of the language for me to learn were certain sounds not in English - mainly the Dakota ġ and ḣ sounds - and the grammar is very different from English. But once you learn it, the language is very interesting and lovely. I hope it never dies. Pidamayaye, Julie!

[@rahuldhargalkar]

I wish I could take such interesting rare languages in school. So glad you could take it

[@nzs316]

Here in Canada actually in Montreal I can pick up the radio station from the reserve Kanesatake and in the radio station they play music and then it stops and the girl starts talking and I guess it would be mohawk and then translate with English and that goes on for maybe half an hour and then continues playing music. Very cool!

[@jadjad4666]

How do you express or talk about events happened in the past since there is no past tense? Do you use a marker?

[@Riurelia]

I might be biased since I grew up on one of the Lakota reservations, and am half Lakota, but Lakota is my favorite language ever. It’s very difficult, and even here on the reservation, I don’t know anyone who speaks the language, but I hope to learn it to fluency someday.

[@mesabzu9922]

I hope so too! It is such a beautiful language! And it deserves to be spoken by more people and used more!

[@rahuldhargalkar]

Hoping for that!

[@kzm-cb5mr]

No one speaks Lakota in a Lakota reservation?

[@MarikHavair]

@@kzm-cb5mr It's hilarious that you're surprised by that, nobody speaks any of the Amerindian languages. They're dead languages and dead for a reason, there's no practical benefit for anyone to continue using them any more than there's a reason for a pan Mediterranean Latin revival, or for all of Britain to start speaking Pictish or Welsh. Hell there's no Picts left and even the Welsh only speak Welsh because their forced to from on high.

[@nialloneill5097]

@@kzm-cb5mr Thanks to errrr...the white man who wished to rule the world...

[@philpaine3068]

In the scene from "Dances with Wolves," the actor speaking Lakota is Graham Greene. Greene is not Lakota, he is an Oneida from Ontario, Canada. He has said that he found it difficult to speak the Lakota lines properly, but he obviously worked very hard to do so, because an Assiniboine friend of mine said he made quite a good job of it. I saw Greene in the stage play "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," a year before his Oscar nomination, and thought his performance brilliant. He remains one of Canada's most beloved actors, regularly appearing on Canadian television shows, as well as in numerous Hollywood movies. His sense of humour is legendary, and it's sad that he never got to play something with Leslie Nielsen.

[@_volder]

Some of the scenes in that movie did have Lakota/Dakota native speakers as actors, though, including the woman who taught actors from other tribes like him. She's featured telling a story herself in one scene.

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Wes Studi who played the Pawnee warrior is Cherokee is a great actor. Also Last of the Mohicans. Kevin Costner is part Cherokee also.

[@marcusfridh8489]

​​@@_volderthats why you can hear even the men speak with a feminine grammar

[@davidlericain]

Interesting bit of trivia: The Klingon language (from Star Trek) uses subject/object pronoun affixes too, and the creator got the idea for it from the Sioux language.

[@ibnewton8951]

More trivia: did you hear about the Jewish American Indian tribe? They’re called the ‘SoSueMe’ tribe.😅 Edit: Heard on Jay Leno - _Tonight Show._

[@christopherellis2663]

No, a Californian tongue

[@boink800]

These are called "agglunitive" languages and this exists in many cases.

[@Kielimies]

The same with Quechua, a South American language of the Incas.

[@magyarbondi]

You know what, listening to them, I immediately thought, ST creators took the Sioux vowels to make Klingon.

[@Reason1717]

As a native who loves the Lakota language. Thank you for struggling thru this language. That and many other reasons I am a subscriber :)

[@SumNumber]

Thank you for putting you beautiful spot light on the native Americans . Your intelligence on vocabulary is really impressive . AHO WADO :O)

[@studentscanner4455]

Great video! I was so excited to watch this! A bit of movie trivia: the majority of the Native American actors in Dances With Wolves were not Sioux and did not speak the language, but were coached by native speakers to get their lines right. However, the scene where the old woman is describing how her husband years ago got spooked and jumped up a tree...that woman was a true native Sioux speaker, so we get to hear the real language as spoken by a native in that short scene:)

[@defjam137]

I read somewhere that she was the last surviving speaker of that language.

[@balikris]

@defjam137 ... nope, late Doris Leader Charge was a teacher in Lakota language at Sinte Gleska College (now University) at Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, SD. She and most of the teachers spoke/speak Lakota. When I stayed in her home for 5 months in 1988, she and her family spoke both Lakota and American - as well as so many others. You might google the university to see their program. So what you read 'somewhere' is absolutely not true! Btw I'm from Denmark, Europe 😁

[@Zebred2001]

There is also the Nakoda dialect. A breakaway tribe speaking this same dialect are the Assiniboine.

[@jaredwoods2361]

She mentioned that in the video, the first time quite early in. "A group of 3 dialects, or perhaps now three languages" Edit: I was still watching the video, and she just showed Nakoda on a map. Just wanted to make sure Nakoda wasn't forgotten

[@torrawel]

Hi, linguist here specialist in (indigenous) American languages. I haven't watched the whole video yet but already wanted to note 2 things: -an American language! Hurrah! 🎉🎉🎉 Hope to see more of them 😊 -no serious scholar in the field believes in the 3 branches theory (anymore). The Eskimo-Aleut, Na-dene and Amerind division, developed by Greenberg and followers, contains way too many errors to be taken seriously in the first place. The theory has been debunked many years ago and most people have moved on. Greenberg was not even specialised in American languages... He became famous for his theory about African ones (where he lumbed everything in just 4 families) . Even that one however is nowadays seriously challenged by colleagues who work with those languages...

[@mollythornton8448]

Yeah, but if you live locally the Lakota and Dakota acknowledge the Nakota. The problem with white academia not understanding the locale.

[@tedgemberling2359]

I read about something kind of charming. In northwest Ontario, Canada, there's a town called Sioux Lookout. I understand it comes from the Ojibwe people watching for the incursion of Siouxs into their lands.

[@boink800]

The Lakota Language really makes English look like baby talk. I hope so much the language(s) will be thriving again, as much as Navajo is in Arizona. Bilingual education will be the key.

[@nickmiller76]

Ref your first sentence: Er.....no.

[@boink800]

@@nickmiller76Er ..... yes.

[@gregor-samsa]

Hebrew was restarted as well. You'd need raw material

[@romanenlil1237]

Чудове відео! Особливо сподобався екскурс в історію та граматику!

[@mikelistman5263]

Thanks so much for this interesting and engaging intro into the Sioux language and culture. I live in central Mexico, where many are trying to preserve and promote Nahuatl. When a language dies, with it goes an entire culture. Good luck to you and keep posting!

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

😂😂😂 We are not dead and this was a student report on my culture, at best!

[@hopfer66]

It´s an awesome work you do in the history of languages! I´m pretty sure many generations will thank you in the future.

[@lauranicholls9421]

Love the Sioux Beautiful hearing Lakota language. The Lakota lullaby’s beautiful. The Sioux language is one of the oldest Hope it lives ♾ ♾ ♾. Thanks for sharing..🔥

[@zsoltzelenka1713]

You became such a professional during the years but you still have a special charm in these presentations which I love. 😊

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

8:10 What a beautiful language. Dances with wolves. Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci. I repeated this phrase for weeks after the movie because it just rolls of the tongue.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

😂😂😂

[@muzikhed]

It is so important not to lose languages / cultures as it is to recuperate those that have almost disapeared. Unfortunately most governments are only interested in one language being spoken for various questionable reasons. Cultures, Customs and Languages are forgotten and everyone everywhere is much of a muchness.......I admire your effort and interest. Cheers.

[@nialloneill5097]

The meadow flowers upon the prairies are varied...and so should be the languages...this is the beauty of the creator expressed in men's unique ways...and the aggregate of these words and languages should make for a hymn of praise to the Great Mystery...

[@Pippis78]

I speak a finno-ugric language (European but of North-Asian origin). We also can pack a whole lot of information in single words similarly to this. But we're not verb focused, I'd say(?). And we too don't have gendered pronouns! In my language for instance who does, when does and making it a question or a suggestion can be baked into a single verb, that can be a whole sentence on it's own. But the same can be done to otherkind of words as well - maybe even more can be baked into subjectives. A verb sentence could be "pääsimmekö?" - Did we get (in)? päästä=get in/out/away , me=we , =question. Another example of a word could be "autoissammekinko" = "also in our cars?" Auto=car, i=plural indicator mid word, ssa=inside, mme=our, kin=also, ko=question indicator.

[@lunarsoul1737]

Very cool video! My favourite indigenous language is Kiikaapoa/Kiikaapoi, spoken by the people of the same name. They also apparently have a high rate of native speakers in Mexico where many live today despite originally being from Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Itd be very fun to see a language video on it sometime!

[@davidwitten2746]

I always enjoy and learn so much from your presentations. Thanks!

[@maloprevisokapolica1923]

I love that you make videos about such indegenous languages!

[@indradatta8570]

JuLi , you are awesome. THANK YOU 😍

[@ZharelAnger]

Sioux is a pejorative used against both Lakota (aligned tribes) and Dakota (unaligned Lakota). The distinction came about during Little Crow's war. The language common among the nomadic tribes of the upper plains of North America was Lakhota and Dakhóta which were nearly indistinguishable.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

What about the Nakota? 😂

[@ZharelAnger]

@@CosmicAli_TheObserverI am not familiar with Nakón Iyábi nor Îyethka Îabi but I am sure they share many words and word parts. It is inevitable that the migratory routs of the hunted herds often brought them together. I've collected many hunting stories attributed to Tatanka Iyotake, Phizi, Mukwah and others of reunions, love capers of the young, and feuds. They are humorous and joyful tales with some cautionary lessons.

[@PsiHolo]

Hi, I would like to get your opinion. I was doing some research on Hungarian prehistory and came across some material that I would like to quote for you. It is from a Hungarian engineer working in Canada. First, a brief account of my first amazing Canadian language experience: we had been living in the New World for about 5 months, and had chosen a sublet solution for a short period of time before buying our future family home. It was a Saturday, and the owners of the house were leaving early in the morning to visit relatives. My wife and I were having breakfast and were discussing in Hungarian how we could go on a trip as soon as possible. The only obstacle to this was that the twice-weekly housekeeper was still there, and how we could leave the house unlocked. It was never mentioned with our hosts that the key could be given to anyone. The usually discreet concierge was now apparently always hovering close by. “Hey, that woman is watching us!” my wife said. Then the cleaning lady stood in front of us and said with eyes shining with tears: “I’m really sorry to disturb you in your conversation like this. After all, I would ask you to continue in our dear mother tongue. To my ears, it is like a dream from the old days, when I was raised as a Dakota girl and spoke in my mother tongue. As a young girl, I was placed among the white people. I now search hard for words in my mother tongue, some of which I can only guess at the meaning. But now I am inexpressibly happy to hear the language of my people again…! “ “Madam, do you claim to have understood our conversation?”, I asked incredulously. “Of course, the gist of it. I had forgotten the Dakota and could only make out the meaning of what they were saying. But I was fascinated by the sound of so many familiar words and the end-of-word changes that were completely unknown in English. But if you really want to go, you can go, I’ll lock the door, I have the key to the house.“ “And how did you know we were planning a trip, and we were worried about how long it would take to clean up?” “I didn't understand that you were going on a trip, but I understood that you wanted to go and you didn't know who was going to lock the door.”

[@robbabcock_]

The entirety of modern North American civilization is built upon the bones and graves of an amazingly rich, ancient and complex culture. Some of my Sioux friends finally began to learn their own tribal tongues in the late 90's. So much damage was done by racist attempts by the US & Canadian governments to stamp out native language and cultures. Thanks for spotlighting the culture and language of the original Americans!

[@metrotrujillo]

and the discrimination continues, none stop HISPANIC=LATINO=BROWN=NATIVE AMERICAN WHO SPEAKS SPANISH look at the southern border? all those migrants are "indians" trying to repopulate north america.

[@gerardvanwilgen9917]

"The entirety of modern North American civilization is built upon the bones and graves of an amazingly rich, ancient and complex culture. " That is probably the case for every known civilization, including those of Native Americans such as the Aztecs.

[@danielclark5586]

my favorite learning experience yet. Great job Julie

[@TheKrodin]

I appreciate this awesome work that you do, and I hope to see your Patreon grow! You deserve everything life can offer. Thank you so much for existing, Julie!

[@Pingthescribe]

I always enjoy your videos! Thank you for giving attention to this language!

[@neilreynolds3858]

The "peaceful" American tribes had such colorful names for each other. The Hopi refereed to the Dine as the head bashers.

[@jonatasmendonca2079]

I've always been fascinated with Native North and South American languages. Here in my country, Brazil, ther're still 200 native languages struggling for survival. I picked up some content on some of these languages on the internet, though they are very complex... thank you for bringing up such a beautiful language!!

[@Ken-hs5yu]

I absolutely love that you decided to tackle this dialect/language.

[@DonTornado]

They’re from the area where I live, but I don’t personally know anyone who speaks Dakota. It’s interesting to hear you talk about a group of people that are more local for me.

[@stevenseibel9216]

always fun to binge watch from time to time

[@trttoday7440]

trees sun air, breath more ,good vibe hugggss.. 🙏🏻

[@carlosansone9889]

As far as i know, "natowessi-wag (-WAG being the plural form in ojibwe), the diminutive of natowessi (Odaawa NAADWESI) Is NATOWESI-NH, in ojibwe, so the diminutive plural would be NATOWESSI-NH-WAG. naadwesi in this context probably does't refer to the snakes poison but to its forked tongue, designating a liar... ASSINIBOIN derives from the french spelling of ASSINIIBWAAN again a western ojibwe word meaning STONE asiin, and BWAAN here apparently meaning a particular type of people. The stone people often recur in the mythology of the region (see mary louise defender wilson, the earth will never end. Also narwal morriseau, an ojibwe author) Thx for sharing julie!

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Close, sharp tongue. There was a huge fight for us to become seven Nations of Sioux. The Ojibwa got involved and one of our people called a family out for inbreeding... The was a lot of fighting and we embraced the name because "we would rather be snakes then inbred", the feuding families died and the fight was lost to time. When the time the French came it was still a sore subject. They didn't understand our language as well as they thought and took a lot of liberties with our words. The white people here walked around calling women Vaginas until the mid 90's. 😂 It's not even vulgar, just very childish. Our words have more than one meaning, and slang isn't new. When people get mad today they call others names like "mother f@^$er" but, that not actually true, nor did it happen. Hope that helps.

[@coucoubrandy1079]

I was very happy to watch this video but it also made me sad because there's so few people who speak the language. I wish there will be more in the future.

[@richardknouse618]

Apparently Lakota/Dakota is very efficient at expressing reality from the perspective of quantum mechanics.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Interesting you said that! A lot of our beliefs are being proven through quantum mechanics! We even have a story that sounds like String Theory. Incredible!

[@erikziak1249]

2:20 Wow. I certainly did not expect you to use those diacritic marks and even less to pronounce them the way I do in my native language. Might this be the reason why the mysterious KZbin algorithm suggested me your video? A very interesting topic and I learned something. I hope something I will remember long-term. EDIT: Towards the end of the video, I was quite surprised. And to be honest, I watched it because of your cute fact with those eyes that make me melt. I do not apologize for admitting to being a male, drawn to your beauty. And it is not pure physical, but intellectual as well. Best wishes, Erik.

[@juandiegoprado]

Very interesting and well-made video as usual! I can't remember if you've already done a video about this other topic, but it would be great to see how all the different language families in the Americas evolved/related to each other.

[@procolecornwal6]

quelque temps que je ne vous voyais plus sur YT ❤

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

Thank you for reminding me that there are beautiful people on this planet

[@ChrisMeerkat]

In some cultures the snake represents knowledge and wisdom.

[@TantricViper]

I love your synopses of languages Julie, and marvel at how much you put into the study of each. The format you use to survey each language shows that people of all languages have much more in common than the differences between their languages suggests.

[@RedHair651]

Your presence on screen seems much more comfortable than when you first started 🎉 you love to see it

[@zabaanshenaas]

Sioux has always been one of my favourite languages. I love the sound of it. Many native American languages sound awesome, and for that reason many of them are on my list. Apart from Sioux, I'm also trying to learn Ojibwe, Mohawk, Salish, Navaho, and Hopi.

[@marsgal42]

When you hear the radically different accent in the excerpt from Dances With Wolves you wonder if the speaker had a strong English accent, or if that's just what Lakota sounds like now. You hear "contact accents" in other languages - Breton sounds like Welsh with a French accent, for example.

[@wasnt.here.3853]

I was wondering this as well. I myself can hear the French in Breton without knowing a word of Breton.

[@ksiistoyiiwa]

Here's a link to a clip where you can hear Celtic languages (including Breton) spoken mostly by older native speakers, with far less intrusive English or French influence: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmHbp5SrZ9Wip6ssi=QFT2KrWt9UlquWzY - when the speakers are younger (as in the last half of the clip, you start to hear more of the "contact accent" you mentioned.

[@wasnt.here.3853]

@@ksiistoyiiwa "Contact accent"! That's a great term I didn't know. Yes, that's the first clip I've seen where I can't find hardly any trace of French or French accent as a French speaker myself until maybe the slightest something with the last one at the very end but still the purest I've heard ever. Thank you for linking that video

[@ksiistoyiiwa]

@@wasnt.here.3853 De rien - je suis d'accord pour ce qui concerne la dernière - je crois qu'elle a fini son discours en disant "quoi" - mais pour le reste, j'ai l'impression d'avoir entendu la langue irlandaise et la langue bretonne authentiques, sans influence significative de l'angais ou du français.

[@wasnt.here.3853]

@@ksiistoyiiwa c'est exactement ça, le "quoi" à la fin que j'ai entendu

[@stefanmargraf7878]

Sounds great! A beautiful language!

[@robotguard614]

Amazing work as always! I'm wandering if you could do the Romaní language/dialects!

[@d.c.8828]

Thank you for this video for historical preservation!

[@kaladze93]

Hi, I discovered your channel recently and binge watched all your videos, they are really high quality and informative. Are you also intrested in constructed languages? I wish you could make a video on esperanto. Its features are less fascinating than naturale languages, but its history and the vision behind it are truly amazing and worth telling.

[@boink800]

I hope Julie can do a series about bilingual education and how that can save endangered languages across the world. It is said that a language dies every two weeks.

[@daseteam]

Great job Julie

[@bealisan]

Thanks for this video. Very interesting and informative.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

This is a very interesting video. Thank you for sharing.

[@skthalange]

Wow. To learn such a complex language and then explain it to us. Brilliant

[@tierraeterea]

Great quick summary! I would love to see some Algonquian and Iroquoian/Haudenosaunee languages

[@rsfaeges5298]

Lovely & fascinating sound. A pleasure to hear [Sioux] spoken.

[@jovetj]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@ToddSauve]

There is another language besides Lakota and Dakota that is part of the linguistic grouping. And that is Nakota or Nakoda, the language of the Stoney or Assiniboine tribe, sometimes historic allies of the Lakota and Dakota--and sometimes enemies.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

That's right Sioux is 3 dialects.

[@Piwonia67]

Good luck in preserving your language!

[@torlumian]

enthralled by these videos

[@tdbn4599]

HA!! I almost used the same word “enthralled” on my comment. I should’ve kept it since it was accurate to my initial impression of her video.

[@SteelWalrus]

Thanks for doing this. It's got me curious to learn the Cherokee language, since they used to inhabit where I live.

[@marna_li]

Westworld (the Sci-Fi series) have stories with characters speaking Lakȟóta. That is how I got an interest in this beautiful language.

[@danielnielsen1977]

Vary cool! You might be one of the first non-bias to cover native language and inform everyone, at least in our modern times. Thanks!🔥

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Nope. We have better people take a master class.😂

[@danielnielsen1977]

@@CosmicAli_TheObserver This is why I used the term might be. People everywhere come to learn and know more when others share there story's, No? What is better people? You really go out of your way to be arrogant and rude. And without cause. Good luck with that, have a pleasant day.

[@soyamor6528]

Thank you for what you do

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

It is strange to see people doing videos on me, but here we are.😂 Let me correct in some things here.... We got the nickname "Snake" or Sioux because we are deadly even with our arms and legs cut off, wise and the closest to the Earth. Brutal opponents, the Original savages our warriors fight every fight to the death. My Chief was shot in the eye and lived to fight the rest of the battle. We are still Chiefs and Holly people in my family to this day. We are the only people EVER to take on the United States Government and WIN! Nakota was left out, it is still very important. Yamní. Lakota is not dying either, we have words for Covid, and any other modern thing that happens just like other languages. Lakota is my first language, a lot of us speak at least three languages. There are Seven Nations of Sioux and the Ojibwa have been our allies for a long time, like the Cheyenne actually. When the Medicine man had the vision of the Jiggle Dress, one of the three was sent to the Ogallala (Sioux). Similar to Europe, our different tribes are like the different countries. So when you call us"the Native Americans", that's the same as saying "the Europeans", or calling Asian people "Oriental". So it is important to call us by our Tribe and not to generalize us. We all have different beliefs, some tribes accept gays and call them two spirits, in my tribe people lose their lives for less. I would have to say, 79% of my culture is private. We decided to keep it that way so that we may continue to live. We are from the Old Ones, the Sacred First People and very rare. It's beautiful and an honor, we are blessed. A'Ho!!

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Wow, an interesting language, and sounds nice :)

[@hizaleus]

Once I attended a "sweat lodge" conducted by a non-native speaker, using a script written without any diacritical marks or pronunciation guide. As a result, the leader was invoking "grandmother skunk" and "great fallen down [thing.] "😂

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Sounds like just a sauna, that's not how that works.😂😂😂 Thos comment section is funny.

[@renatofigueiredo603]

Excellent! Thanks a lot.

[@trtlphnx]

You Are Fantastic: Could you Do the Cayuga Language and if You Need help I AM From The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Northeast Oklahoma...

[@ljosephdumas3113]

Any relatives still in the Salamanca, NY area? My 10XGreat Grandmother was Onondaga, so interested in your family's journey.

[@eddysanta1213]

Great video.

[@patricio.brevis-acuna]

Cool video and very convincing pronunciation 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@user-ly9nj5ft6z]

Thank you

[@esalehtismaki]

If Tolkien had known about this, Elven languages would be very different. I think this kind of complexity reflects a higher level of thinking.

[@alexanderwalter4595]

Westworld season 2, episode 8 inspired me to try to learn Lakota. The entire episode is spoken nearly entirely in Lakota, subtitled in English.

[@zyldrix200]

Your videos are always well made and informational and this one was no different keep up the good work. Though this comment might get buried if your looking to expand on American languages I would love to see you make one on mine which is Menominee since I think its often overshadowed by Ojibwe though the languages are very similar.

[@Sowhat300]

I highly recommend Ruth Beebe Hill’s ‘Hanta Yo’ which roughly translates to ‘Here I Come.’ It’s worth a read. Ms.Hill worked along side a Siouan elder to recreate an accurate dialect.

[@zerog5580]

very good video

[@nickrider5220]

The Indian Nations were so badly treated by the European invaders, so it's fantastic to learn about one of their languages, to learn a little about them. As a teenager I, a Brit, liked the native people, so when I bought 2 little koi 40 years ago I called one Sioux and the other Cheyenne - Sioux is now 41 years old (and very healthy), I hope the native languages and traditions survive like my oldest fish !

[@cemyildiz7842]

The sound of the Sioux Languages are like Georgian or Abkazian etc. for me. The common thing for me between Circassian languages and Sioux is that I don't know anything about those languages.

[@generoush3823]

I spent about 3 years working on Pine Ridge in the mid 1970s putting up the council buildings in each village and was only able to pick up about 4 words

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Wasté!!❤

[@schoolingdiana9086]

Val Kilmer learned it in only weeks, after filming Thunderheart. He is Cherokee, though, and Cherokee has 7 tones and 7 basic verb conjugations, not just being a syllabary (Latin letters are only used to help learners get the phonetics down).

[@KarlDeux]

Ao Krola. Toksha Ake. Two sentences I learnt in 1997 with a colleague who got knowledge in Lakota language after a trip in the US during the 90's. Thx for the information and for the good memories. I was told long ago the I in the word "Sioux" was silent in English??!

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

It's pronounced like Sue. A'ho kola- hello friend, wasté! 😁

[@gerald-dw7vp]

Thanks for this video! If I remember well, the future tense is expressed by a particle after the verb. What is funny is that there are no verbal tenses, there's just one way to conjugate the verbs and the tenses are expressed only by particles or adverbs, the verb itself doesn't say anything about tense.

[@bobfry5267]

I recommend the film "Prey" for the language and culture. It's a unique film.

[@clongshanks5206]

Excellent video. Now do Ta’agra or Klingon next

[@micmac_billyjack]

Thanks. Native languages have been mostly mysterious for me until now. Thanks for your very informative video.

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

C- work at best, take a master class.

[@ProjectMirai64]

Nice video!

[@davefarnsworth3020]

Of all the languages, this is one that I've been most interested in. Lately I've been learning Brazilian Portuguese as well as a bit of Ticuna and quechua as I'm planning on moving to the Amazon. BTW, I love that lullaby for the good hearted boy and sometimes sing it when I get my wooden flutes out to play.

[@SichanguOyate]

Le vidéo kiŋ yakaǧa čha philámayaye ❤. +++±+++++++ Thanks for making this video.❤

[@kidmohair8151]

I have a good friend who is full Lakhota. the tribal interrelations as she describes them are at once competitive and cooperative... ie. messy

[@kidmohair8151]

just. like. all. human. interactions.

[@Otonaamjantehbena]

Very informative video । Please make a vedio on the Bengali বাংলা language। It's my native language।

[@williambranch4283]

Thanks.

[@fidenemini111]

Lakhota and Dakhota are among the most beautifully sounding languages.

[@tdbn4599]

What is your native tongue? You have an accent that I find difficult to pin down. Excellent work. I hit subscribe right away.

[@magyarbondi]

Julie (Julija) has told us she is from Latvia, she lived in France, now lives in England.

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

Julie you’re pretty good at saying these Sioux words . Have you been studying it?

[@michihofer587]

Being a German I couldn't understand the native American( the first nation )language at all though I always respect their language and culture.

[@andrewsullivan3874]

It's funny when she tells us to watch Killers of the Flower Moon. I absolutely agree!

[@harpcio]

WOW! It's quite complicated language. Greetings from the country of thathanka ;) Poland.