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Meaning of "siouan"
siouan (adjective) - relating to the Siouan language family or the Native American tribes speaking languages of this family. It can also refer to anything related to the Siouan-speaking people
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- Of or relating to the Sioux people, culture or languages.
- A member of the Sioux people.
- A primary language family containing the Sioux and Catawban languages.
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Siouan language family.
Most archaeologists believe they were Siouan speakers.
Common Siouan vowels may be either long or short.
Their language is unknown and may have been a Siouan language.
Siouan language tribes such as the Moneton had also been recorded in the area previously.
Omaha is one of five languages in the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan language family.
Siouan languages can be grouped into the Western Siouan languages and Catawban languages.
Their original language family was Siouan.
The Siouan languages are spoken in central North America.
Chiwere dialect of the Siouan language.
A new Siouan dialect.
The Monacan language was part of the Siouan language family.
The Siouan family.
They are generally classified with the speakers of the Siouan Ofo language.
The Siouan languages.
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For generations this area of western Missouri was home to Central Siouan tribes.
Western Siouan languages.
The peoples of Nodena were probably Tunican or Siouan speaking.
This tribe spoke a Siouan language, as did other tribes of the uplands.
All these groups were closely related with the Siouan Manahoac to the north.
Siouan language tribes, such as the Moneton, had previously been recorded in the area.
Scholars believe that the Occaneechi spoke a Siouan dialect similar to Tutelo.
Noun: a Siouan language spoken by the Oglala.
It derives from the Siouan word for " prayer.
Thus, Mandan is most often considered to be a separate branch of the Siouan family.
Together with the Western Siouan languages, they formed the Siouan language family.
Linguistically, all three language groups belong to Siouan languages.
Its name is of Siouan derivation, denoting the Quapaw Indians.
Grassmann 's law is also known to occur in Ofo, an extinct and underdocumented Siouan language.
This caused other wars between Algonquian & Siouan peoples within the following decades.
For this reason, linguists classify Mandan most often as a separate branch of the Siouan family.
The south was inhabited predominantly by the Siouan nations -- the Assiniboine and the Gros Ventres.
An estimated thirty tribal members still speak the Iowa or Chiwere language, a Siouan language.
Speakers of Mandan, a Siouan language, they developed a settled, agrarian culture.
During the colonial period, the area was inhabited by Siouan language-speaking tribes.
In their Siouan language, they identified as the Kawahcatawbas, " the people of the river.
Their tribal language is Kansa, classified as a Siouan language.
Throughout the 19th century, the Waccamaw Siouan were seldom mentioned in the historical record.
Language = = The traditional Quapaw language is part of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan language family.
Their Siouan affinity was demonstrated by Swanton in 1908 through a vocabulary collected from the last survivor.
The Catawban language, which is being revived, is part of the Siouan family Catawban branch.
Unlike other Siouan tribes, the Ho-chunks never lived in tepees.
The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on Siouan dialect and subculture,.
These Siouan remnants were formally adopted by the Cayuga nation of New York in 1753.
They call themselves by the autonym Tanêks ( a ) in Siouan Biloxi language.
The Dhegihan languages are a group of Siouan languages that include Kansa-Osage, Omaha-Ponca, and Quapaw.
The term " Dhegiha " refers to all five Indian tribes, since they speak a Dhegiha Siouan language.
However, phonemic vowel length exists in several Siouan languages such as Hidatsa, Ho-Chunk, and Tutelo.
These peoples could have been Assiniboine, Cree, Cree-Assiniboine or Siouan.
Category, Siouan languages.
