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central North America | |
| Genetic classification: |
one of the world's primary language families | |
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 Pre-contact distribution of the Siouan-Catawban languages |
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Siouan-Catawban (also Catawban-Siouan, Siouan) is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains of North America with a few outlier languages in the east.
Some authors call this family simply Siouan. Other writers favor the name Siouan-Catawaban so that Catawban is clearly indicated as a separate branch of the family and not under "Siouan Proper".
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Family division
Siouan-Catawban consists of 19 languages with 2 main branches:
- I. Siouan (a.k.a. Siouan proper, Western Siouan)
- 1. Mandan
- A. Missouri River (a.k.a. Crow-Hidatsa)
- B. Mississippi Valley (a.k.a. Central Siouan)
- C. Ohio Valley (a.k.a. Southeastern Siouan)
- 12. Tutelo (†)
- 13. Saponi (†)
- 14. Moniton (†)
- 15. Occaneechi (†)
- 16. Biloxi (†)
- 17. Ofo language (†)
Quapaw, Saponi, Biloxi, Ofo, Woccon, and Catawba are now extinct.
External relations
The Yuchi language may be the closest relative of Sioux-Catawban, but this has not been verified. Numerous attempts to link these languages with the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages in a Macro-Siouan language family are suggestive but remain hypothetical.
See also
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Bibliography
- Parks, Douglas R.; & Rankin, Robert L. (2001). The Siouan languages. In R. J. DeMallie (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 1, pp. 94-114). W. C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-050400-7.
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