Siouan languages

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Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous languages of the Americas
language family
alternativeName Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan-Catawban language family

Siouan–Catawban languages
associatedWithEthnicGroup Biloxi people
Catawba Indian Nation
surface form: Catawba people

Crow people
Sioux people
surface form: Dakota people

Hidatsa people
Kansas (Kaw) people
surface form: Kansa (Kaw) people

Sioux people
surface form: Lakota people

Sioux people
surface form: Nakota people

Omaha people
Osage Nation
surface form: Osage people

Ponca
surface form: Ponca people

Quapaw tribe
surface form: Quapaw people

Sioux people
surface form: Sioux peoples

Tutelo people
Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people
geographicDistribution Canada
Northern Mexico
surface form: Northern Mexico (historically)

United States of America
surface form: United States
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script (for many modern orthographies)
historicallySpokenIn Great Plains
Midwestern United States
Southern United States
surface form: Southeastern United States
languageBranchOf Macro-Siouan (hypothetical)
linguisticFeature primarily head-marking morphology
rich verb morphology
use of noun incorporation in some languages
majorLanguage Assiniboine language
Biloxi language
Catawba language
Crow language
Dakota language
Hidatsa language
Ho-Chunk language
Kansa language
Lakota language
Omaha–Ponca language
Osage language
Quapaw language
Stoney language
Tutelo language
spokenIn North America
status many languages endangered
several languages extinct
subfamily Siouan languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Catawban (Eastern Siouan) languages

Siouan languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Siouan languages

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Native Americans languageFamily Siouan languages
Ho-Chunk languageFamily Siouan languages
Kaw languageFamily Siouan languages
Kaw subgroupOf Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Dhegiha Siouan
Sioux people languageFamily Siouan languages
Kaw Nation languageFamily Siouan languages
Kaw Nation subgroupOf Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Dhegiha Siouan
First Nations languageFamily Siouan languages
Catawba languageFamily Siouan languages
Catawba linguisticBranch Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Siouan
Omaha people languageFamily Siouan languages
Osage Nation languageFamily Siouan languages
Na-Dene isNotGenerallyClassifiedAs Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan
Crow languageFamily Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan language family
Crow subgroupOf Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan peoples
Southeastern Woodlands languageFamilies Siouan languages
Siouan languages alternativeName Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan-Catawban language family
Siouan languages subfamily Siouan languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Siouan languages
Siouan languages subfamily Siouan languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Catawban (Eastern Siouan) languages
Winnebago languageFamily Siouan languages
Winnebago subgroupOf Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan peoples
Ho-Chunk language family Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan language family
Ho-Chunk language subfamily Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Mississippi Valley Siouan
Eastern Woodlands traditionalInhabitants Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan-speaking peoples
Kansa language languageFamily Siouan languages
Kansa language hasAncestor Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Proto-Siouan
Hoocąk culturalContext Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan-speaking peoples
Hoocąk ethnolinguisticGroup Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan language family
Omaha languageFamily Siouan languages
Ponca languageFamily Siouan languages
Kąⁿza languageFamily Siouan languages
Dakota languageFamily Siouan languages
Dakota language family Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan language family
Dakota language languageFamily Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan
Dakota language branch Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Mississippi Valley Siouan
Lakota language languageFamily Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan language family
Plains Indians languageFamily Siouan languages
Kansa languageFamily Siouan languages
Eno people languageFamily Siouan languages
Occaneechi people ethnicGroup Siouan languages
this entity surface form: Siouan
Occaneechi people languageFamily Siouan languages
Kaw people languageFamily Siouan languages
Omaha tribe languageFamily Siouan languages
Quapaw tribe languageFamily Siouan languages
Kansas (Kaw) people languageFamily Siouan languages
Catawba language languageFamily Siouan languages
Iowa people languageFamily Siouan languages
Eastern Dakota ethnonymLanguage Siouan languages