User:Pingnova/sandbox/Dakota language resources

This userspace draft collects a bibliography of text-based Dakota language resources. The author hopes to use this page to improve Dakota language use across Wikimedia projects.

The Dakota language is the spoken and written language of the Dakota people. It is part of a complex family of related languages and is mutually intelligible with Lakota language, so much so that the two languages are often referred to as one such as "Dakota/Lakota" or "D(L)akota." Previously the Dakota people and language were called Sioux, although contemporary Dakota people and academics prefer their own word for themselves "Dakota." Many older (and some current) language texts continue to refer to them as Sioux.

Dakota language is currently subject to a revitalization and reconstruction, so scholarship and use of the language quickly changes year over year. One of the foremost institutions researching and teaching Dakota is the University of Minnesota, which frequently funds and publishes studies of the language.

Databases

 * University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus Relational Lexicography: Dakota Dictionaries. Incomplete database of language resources with some Dakota listings.

Online

 * Dakota-English Dictionary, Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakotah Language Institute (SWODLI)
 * Searchable database compiled from two historical sources:
 * An English-Dakota Dictionary, by John P. Williamson, published in 1902 by the American Tract Society and reprinted in 1992 by the Minnesota Historical Society.
 * English to Dakotah Dictionary, As Spoken By the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, written by SWODLI and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Treasured Elders, and published by SWODLI in 2015.

App

 * Dakhota Iapi Okhodakichiye. (2023). Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi (Version 1.1) [Mobile app]. Google Play. App Store.
 * Lakota Language Consortium (LLC Software). (February 11, 2015). New Lakota Dictionary (NLD) (Version 4.2.0) [Mobile app]. Google Play. App Store.
 * Although focused on the Lakota dialect, this app includes comparison to some Dakota.

Contemporary

 * Alternate title: Five hundred fifty Dakota verbs.
 * Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data indicates the book encompasses Dakota, Lakota, and Yankton. This volume uses UMN2 orthography.

Historical

 * First published in 1890 by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, as Contributions to North American Ethnology, volume 7.
 * This work has been republished in multiple editions and formats including the below.

Chapters

 * Conjugation explanation in chapter "Conjugation Forms" pages 7–10. "Appendix" pages 177–181 reprints "Parts of Speech–Verbs" from An English–Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson. This volume uses the UMN2 orthography.
 * Conjugation explanation in chapter "Conjugation Forms" pages 7–10. "Appendix" pages 177–181 reprints "Parts of Speech–Verbs" from An English–Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson. This volume uses the UMN2 orthography.
 * Conjugation explanation in chapter "Conjugation Forms" pages 7–10. "Appendix" pages 177–181 reprints "Parts of Speech–Verbs" from An English–Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson. This volume uses the UMN2 orthography.
 * Conjugation explanation in chapter "Conjugation Forms" pages 7–10. "Appendix" pages 177–181 reprints "Parts of Speech–Verbs" from An English–Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson. This volume uses the UMN2 orthography.
 * Conjugation explanation in chapter "Conjugation Forms" pages 7–10. "Appendix" pages 177–181 reprints "Parts of Speech–Verbs" from An English–Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson. This volume uses the UMN2 orthography.

In context

 * Bdote Memory Map, Minnesota Humanities Center
 * Oral history project covering major historical, religious, and linguistic records of Bdóte within the Twin Cities, Minnesota region.
 * Bdote Memory Map, Minnesota Humanities Center
 * Oral history project covering major historical, religious, and linguistic records of Bdóte within the Twin Cities, Minnesota region.


 * Project MUSE
 * Includes a short glossary pages 189–192. UMN2 orthography.

Poetry

 * Poetry in Dakota and English. Accessible via Project MUSE with a Wikipedia Library login.
 * Poetry in Dakota and English. Accessible via Project MUSE with a Wikipedia Library login.

Historical

 * Pond, Gideon Hollister. Dakota tawaxitku kin, or, The Dakota friend [Periodical]. (1850–1852). Library of Congress. Internet Archive. Minnesota Historical Society. LCCN 93099999. ISSN 2640-5989.
 * Pond, Gideon Hollister. Dakota tawaxitku kin, or, The Dakota friend [Periodical]. (1850–1852). Library of Congress. Internet Archive. Minnesota Historical Society. LCCN 93099999. ISSN 2640-5989.