Proto-Siouan language

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Proto-Siouan language is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Siouan language family, from which languages like Osage and Dakota are derived.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Proto-Siouan 1

Statements (47)

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instanceOf Siouan language family proto-language
proto-language
reconstructed language
belongsToLanguageFamily Siouan language family NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Common Siouan proto-language NERFINISHED
Proto-Siouan NERFINISHED
hasApproximateTimeDepth several millennia before present
hasDescendantBranch Mississippi Valley Siouan languages NERFINISHED
Missouri River Siouan languages
Ohio Valley Siouan languages NERFINISHED
Southeastern Siouan languages NERFINISHED
Western Siouan languages NERFINISHED
hasDocumentationType scholarly reconstructions and comparative studies
hasFeature complex pronominal prefixes
contrastive nasalization
noun incorporation
rich system of verb morphology
series of oral and nasal vowels
series of stops and affricates
hasGeographicHomelandHypothesis Ohio River valley region NERFINISHED
central North America
hasISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code (reconstructed language)
hasReconstructedLexicon Proto-Siouan etymological sets
hasReconstructedPhonology Proto-Siouan phoneme inventory
hasWordOrder verb-initial tendency
hasWritingSystem none (reconstructed with scholarly notation)
influencesReconstructionOf Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan NERFINISHED
isAncestorOf Assiniboine language NERFINISHED
Biloxi language NERFINISHED
Crow language
Dakota language
Hidatsa language
Kansa language NERFINISHED
Lakota language NERFINISHED
Ofo language NERFINISHED
Omaha–Ponca language NERFINISHED
Osage language NERFINISHED
Quapaw language NERFINISHED
Siouan languages NERFINISHED
Stoney language NERFINISHED
Tutelo language NERFINISHED
isBasisFor internal classification of Siouan languages
isNotDirectlyAttested true
isSpokenInPrehistoryOf North America NERFINISHED
reconstructedBy historical linguistics
reconstructedUsing comparative method
studiedInSubfield Siouan linguistics

Referenced by (2)

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

Osage language hasAncestor Proto-Siouan language
Assiniboine language hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Siouan language
this entity surface form: Proto-Siouan