Pre-contact distribution of the Siouan–Catawban languages
Siouan (/ˈsuːən/SOO-ən) or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
other languages in the east. Authors who call the entire family Siouan distinguish the two branches as Western Siouan and Eastern Siouan or as "Siouan-proper"...
The Western Siouanlanguages, also called Siouan proper or simply Siouan, are a large language family native to North America. They are closely related...
The Eastern Siouan branch consists of various historical languages spoken by Siouan peoples of the Appalachian Plateau and Piedmont regions of present-day...
The Ohio Valley Siouan, or Southeastern Siouan, languages are a subfamily of the Western Siouanlanguages, far to the east and south of the Mississippi...
one of two Eastern Siouanlanguages of the eastern US, which together with the Western Siouanlanguages formed the Siouanlanguage family. The last native...
The Dhegihan languages are a group of Siouanlanguages that include Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw. Their historical region included parts of the...
Sioux is a Siouanlanguage spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken Indigenous language in the United...
Muskogean) Sioux (=Siouan) Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian...
is a Dhegiha Siouanlanguage, a broader category containing other languages such as Quapaw, Omaha, Ponca and Osage. This group of languages falls under...
Florida—who also spoke a language that may have been related to Caddoan. Some linguists believe that the Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouanlanguages may be connected...
Osage (/oʊˈseɪdʒ, ˈoʊseɪdʒ/; Osage: 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒻𐒷 Wažáže ie) is a Siouanlanguage that is spoken by the Osage people of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Their...
is a Siouanlanguage spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially...
Dakota subgroup of the Mississippi Valley grouping of the Siouanlanguages. The Dakotan languages constitute a dialect continuum consisting of Santee-Sisseton...
Assiniboine language (/əˈsɪnəbɔɪn/; also known as Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakota, Nakoda, Nakon or Nakona, or Stoney) is a Nakotan Siouanlanguage of the Northern...
Mandan (Mandan: Nų́ų́ʔetaa íroo) is an extinct Siouanlanguage of North Dakota in the United States. By 2009, there was just one fluent speaker of Mandan...
Quapaw, or Arkansas, is a Siouanlanguage of the Quapaw people, originally from a region in present-day Arkansas. It is now spoken in Oklahoma. It is...
also known as Tutelo–Saponi, is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouanlanguages that were originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West Virginia...
symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia, part of present-day...
(also called Iowa-Otoe-Missouria or Báxoje-Jíwere-Nyútʼachi) is a Siouanlanguage originally spoken by the Missouria, Otoe, and Iowa peoples, who originated...
Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Chumashan languages Penutian languages Dixon, Roland R.; Kroeber, Alfred L. (1913a). "Relationship of the Indian languages of California." Science...
Eastern Siouan) languages of what is now the Eastern United States. Together with the Western Siouanlanguages, they formed the Siouanlanguage family...
creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
one of the language divisions out of five main language divisions within the Dakotan group of the Siouan family. The sound of this language differs from...
Hidatsa /hɪˈdɑːtsə/ is an endangered Siouanlanguage that is related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe, primarily in North Dakota...
Lower Yanktonai The Dakota language is a Mississippi Valley Siouanlanguage, belonging to the greater Siouan-Catawban language family. It is closely related...
related to any other language. Various linguists have claimed, however, that the language has a distant relationship with the Siouan family: Sapir in 1921...