how to pronounce dakota

/dəˈkəʊtə/

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dakota is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of dakota in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… North Dakota from there travelers can …”

meanings of dakota

name:

The Santee branch of the Sioux people.
The language of these people.
A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.

noun:

A Douglas DC-3 aircraft.
A member of the Dakota people.

dakota frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word dakota occurs in english on average 1.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics dakota can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that dakota can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;