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Western Siouan
Siouan Proper
Geographic distribution
central North America
Linguistic classification
Siouan
Western Siouan
Subdivisions
Missouri River (Crow–Hidatsa)
Mandan
Mississippi Valley (Central)
Ohio Valley (Southeastern)
Glottolog
core1249
Pre-contact distribution of the Western Siouan languages
The Western Siouan languages, also called Siouan proper or simply Siouan,[1] are a large language family native to North America. They are closely related to the Catawban languages, sometimes called Eastern Siouan, and together with them constitute the Siouan (Siouan–Catawban) language family.
Linguistic and historical records indicate a possible southern origin of the Siouan people, with migrations over a thousand years ago from North Carolina and Virginia to Ohio. Some continued down the Ohio River, to the Mississippi and up to the Missouri. Others went down the Mississippi, settling in what is now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Others traveled across Ohio to what is now Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, home of the Dakota.
^In which case the greater family is called Siouan–Catawban
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