Siouan languages
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The Siouan languages are a Native American language family of North America. The Siouan family is related to the Catawban languages. While the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota comprise "the Great Sioux Nation", the language family is much broader and includes "the old speakers", the Hocák (Winnebago) and their linguistic cousins, the Absaroke (Crow). The Siouan family also extends back East and down South.
While social migrations have yet to be definitively worked out, linguistic and historical sitings indicate a southern origin of Siouan people, with migrations over a thousand years ago from North Carolina and Virginia to Ohio, then both down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and up to the Missouri, and across Ohio to Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, home of the Dakota. Some linguists associate Siouan languages with Caddoan and Iroquoian languages in a Macro-Siouan language family.
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Family division
- Central Siouan languages
- Mandan language
- Mississippi Valley Siouan languages
- Iowa-Oto language
- Winnebago language (Hocák language)
- Dakotan languages
- Assiniboine language
- Dakota language
- Lakota language
- Stoney language (Nakota or Nakoda)
- Dhegiha languages
- Missouri Valley Siouan languages
- Crow language (Absaroka)
- Hidatsa language
- Southeastern Siouan languages
- Tutelo language
- Biloxi-Ofo languages
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