Mississippi Valley Siouan is a branch of the Western Siouan (Siouan proper) language family of North America, distinguished from the family's smaller Missouri River branch. It groups the Dakotan languages (Sioux, Lakota, Dakota, Assiniboine and Stoney), the Chiwere-Winnebago languages (Ho-Chunk and the extinct Chiwere), and the Dhegihan languages (Omaha-Ponca, Kansa-Osage and Quapaw). Its member languages were historically spoken across the central and northern Great Plains, and several, including Chiwere, are now extinct or spoken by only a small number of fluent speakers.
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