Dhegihan languages

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The Dhegihan languages are a subgroup of the Siouan language family traditionally spoken by several Native American tribes of the central United States, including the Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Kansa, and Quapaw.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dhegiha languages 2
Dhegihan languages canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Siouan language subgroup
language subgroup
alsoKnownAs Degiha languages
Dhegihan languages
surface form: Dhegiha languages
ethnicGroup Kaw Nation
Omaha people
Osage Nation
Ponca
surface form: Ponca people

Quapaw tribe
surface form: Quapaw Nation
fieldOfStudy Siouan linguistics
geographicDistribution Arkansas
Arkansas River region
Kansas
Missouri
Missouri River valley
surface form: Missouri River region

Nebraska
Oklahoma
hasGrammaticalFeature active–stative alignment
verb-based morphology
hasMember Kansa language
Omaha–Ponca language
Osage language
Quapaw language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
hasPhylum Macro-Siouan (hypothetical)
surface form: Macro-Siouan (proposed)
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Dhegihan
historicalStatus indigenous languages of North America
languageFamily Siouan languages
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
morphologyType agglutinative language
partOf Siouan language family
region Great Plains
Ozark Plateau
surface form: Ozarks
relatedTo Dakotan languages
Omaha–Ponca language
surface form: Missouri River Siouan languages
sharesFeatureWith other Siouan languages
spokenIn United States of America
surface form: United States

central United States
status endangered languages
subclassOf Siouan languages
traditionalSpeakers Kaw people
surface form: Kansa people

Omaha people
Wazhazhe (Osage) people
surface form: Osage people

Ponca
surface form: Ponca people

Quapaw tribe
surface form: Quapaw people
usedBy Native American tribes
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kansa language isPartOf Dhegihan languages
Quapaw language isPartOf Dhegihan languages
this entity surface form: Dhegiha languages
Dhegihan languages alsoKnownAs Dhegihan languages
this entity surface form: Dhegiha languages