- Siouan language
- nouna family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux• Syn: ↑Siouan• Hypernyms: ↑Amerind, ↑Amerindian language, ↑American-Indian language, ↑American Indian, ↑Indian• Hyponyms:
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Siouan language
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Siouan languages — Infobox Language family name=(Western) Siouan region=central North America familycolor=American fam1=Siouan Catawban child1=Crow Hidatsa child2= Mandan child3=Mississippi Valley (Central) child4=Ohio Valley (Southeastern) map caption=Pre contact… … Wikipedia
Siouan-Catawban languages — Infobox Language family name=Siouan Catawban altname=Siouan region=central North America familycolor=American family=one of the world s primary language families child1=Catawban child2=Siouan map caption=Pre contact distribution of the Siouan… … Wikipedia
Siouan languages — Family of North American Indian languages, spoken mainly west of the Mississippi River in the 17th and 18th centuries. The principal languages and language groups at this time were Winnebago in Wisconsin, Chiwere (Iowa, Oto, and Missouri) in Iowa … Universalium
Siouan — I noun 1. a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains • Syn: ↑Sioux • Derivationally related forms: ↑Siouan (for: ↑Sioux) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Siouan-speaking — adjective able to communicate in a Siouan language • Similar to: ↑communicative, ↑communicatory … Useful english dictionary
Lakota language — language name=Lakota nativename=Lakhota states=United States, with some speakers in Canada region=Primarily North Dakota and South Dakota, but also northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, and northern Montana speakers=8,000–9,000… … Wikipedia
Sioux language — language name=Sioux nativename=Dakota, Lakota states=United States, Canada region=Northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, northeastern Montana, Canada speakers=26,300 (6,495 in Canada)… … Wikipedia
language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… … English dictionary for students
Omaha-Ponca language — language name=Omaha Ponca nativename= familycolor=American states=United States region=Nebraska and Oklahoma speakers=85 fam1=Siouan Proper fam2=Siouan fam3=Mississippi Valley fam4=Dhegiha iso3=omaOmaha Ponca is a Siouan language spoken by the… … Wikipedia
Siouan — /sooh euhn/, n. 1. an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago. 2 … Universalium
