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Siouan languages information


Siouan
Siouan–Catawban
Geographic
distribution
central North America
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
  • Catawban (Eastern)
  • Siouan proper (Western)
ISO 639-2 / 5sio
Linguasphere64-A
Glottologsiou1252
Pre-contact distribution of the Siouan–Catawban languages

Siouan (/ˈsən/ 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.

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Siouan languages

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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"...

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Western Siouan languages

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The Western Siouan languages, also called Siouan proper or simply Siouan, are a large language family native to North America. They are closely related...

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Catawban languages

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The Eastern Siouan branch consists of various historical languages spoken by Siouan peoples of the Appalachian Plateau and Piedmont regions of present-day...

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Ohio Valley Siouan languages

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The Ohio Valley Siouan, or Southeastern Siouan, languages are a subfamily of the Western Siouan languages, far to the east and south of the Mississippi...

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Catawba language

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one of two Eastern Siouan languages of the eastern US, which together with the Western Siouan languages formed the Siouan language family. The last native...

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Dhegihan languages

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The Dhegihan languages are a group of Siouan languages that include Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw. Their historical region included parts of the...

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Sioux language

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Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken Indigenous language in the United...

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Classification of the Indigenous languages of the Americas

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Muskogean) Sioux  (=Siouan) Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian...

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Kansa language

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is a Dhegiha Siouan language, a broader category containing other languages such as Quapaw, Omaha, Ponca and Osage. This group of languages falls under...

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Caddoan languages

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Florida—who also spoke a language that may have been related to Caddoan. Some linguists believe that the Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan languages may be connected...

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Osage language

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Osage (/oʊˈseɪdʒ, ˈoʊseɪdʒ/; Osage: 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒻𐒷‎ Wažáže ie) is a Siouan language that is spoken by the Osage people of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Their...

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Lakota language

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is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially...

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Stoney language

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Dakota subgroup of the Mississippi Valley grouping of the Siouan languages. The Dakotan languages constitute a dialect continuum consisting of Santee-Sisseton...

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Assiniboine language

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Assiniboine language (/əˈsɪnəbɔɪn/; also known as Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakota, Nakoda, Nakon or Nakona, or Stoney) is a Nakotan Siouan language of the Northern...

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Mandan language

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Mandan (Mandan: Nų́ų́ʔetaa íroo) is an extinct Siouan language of North Dakota in the United States. By 2009, there was just one fluent speaker of Mandan...

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Quapaw language

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Quapaw, or Arkansas, is a Siouan language of the Quapaw people, originally from a region in present-day Arkansas. It is now spoken in Oklahoma. It is...

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Tutelo language

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also known as Tutelo–Saponi, is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouan languages that were originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West Virginia...

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Anatolian languages

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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...

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Chiwere language

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(also called Iowa-Otoe-Missouria or Báxoje-Jíwere-Nyútʼachi) is a Siouan language originally spoken by the Missouria, Otoe, and Iowa peoples, who originated...

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Hokan languages

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Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Chumashan languages Penutian languages Dixon, Roland R.; Kroeber, Alfred L. (1913a). "Relationship of the Indian languages of California." Science...

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Woccon language

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Eastern Siouan) languages of what is now the Eastern United States. Together with the Western Siouan languages, they formed the Siouan language family...

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Languages of the United States

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creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...

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List of endangered languages in Canada

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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...

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Hidatsa language

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Hidatsa /hɪˈdɑːtsə/ is an endangered Siouan language that is related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe, primarily in North Dakota...

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Dakota people

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Lower Yanktonai The Dakota language is a Mississippi Valley Siouan language, belonging to the greater Siouan-Catawban language family. It is closely related...

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Yuchi language

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related to any other language. Various linguists have claimed, however, that the language has a distant relationship with the Siouan family: Sapir in 1921...

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