Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble. A special Scrabble tournament in the language made its debut Friday, pitting teams from Sioux ...

The Lakota Sioux language, made famous through its portrayal in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” is now one of only a handful of American Indian languages with enough remaining speakers to survive ...

Sure, you can buy Icelandic Scrabble, Croatian Scrabble, even Slovenian Scrabble – if you look hard enough. After all, those languages have entire nations of speakers. But who’d want Scrabble for a ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the Upper Sioux Community this week unveiled four new dual-language highway signs in the Dakota language and in English. The signs, marking the ...

MORTON, MINN. – A language at risk of dying is taking on new life with Trella Oldrock and other teens. This fall, for the first time, a class in Dakota is being offered for high school students here ...

A three-day summit begins today in Rapid City on efforts to retain the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota language. The conference, "Uniting the Seven Council Fires to Save the Language," will open at 9 a.m. at ...

Lakota, a Siouan language, currently holds an EGIDS level of 6b (threatened). Interestingly enough, Lakota is very well documented but is still losing speakers. The number of first language Lakota ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Although the vast majority of residents here primarily speak English, the greater Sioux Falls area ranks among the top 10 percent in the country for language diversity.