Siouan is a family of indigenous languages of North America, with member languages historically spoken across the Great Plains and parts of the southeastern United States. Its members include Lakota, Dakota and Crow, peoples whose languages were extensively documented through nineteenth and twentieth century ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork.
Facts
RegionThe Great Plains, the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys, and parts of southeastern North America 1 Proto-Language StatusProto-Siouan is reconstructed as the common ancestor of all modern Siouan languages, with a comparative phonemic system developed collaboratively since the 1984 Comparative Siouan Workshop, superseding earlier proposals by Wolff in 1950 and Matthews in 1958. 1 In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Siouan Languages
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a language family of North America located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
Proto-Siouan section
Proto-Siouan is the reconstructed ancestor of all modern Siouan languages.
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