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".

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)

2. Crow

3. Hidatsa

B. Mississippi Valley (a.k.a. Central Siouan)

4. Sioux

5. Assiniboine

6. Stoney

7. Chiwere (a.k.a. Iowa-Oto-Missouri)

8. Winnebago

9. Omaha-Ponca

10. Kansa-Osage

11. Quapaw (†)

C. Ohio Valley (a.k.a. Southeastern Siouan)

12. Tutelo (†)

13. Saponi (†)

14. Moniton (†)

15. Occaneechi (†)

16. Biloxi (†)

17. Ofo (†)

II. Catawban (a.k.a. Eastern Siouan) (†)

18. Woccon (†)

19. Catawba (†)

Quapaw, Saponi, Biloxi, Ofo, Woccon, and Catawba are now extinct.

Some linguists group the Siouan-Catawaban languages together with the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages in a Macro-Siouan language family. However, this has not yet been demonstrated.

See also

• Siouan languages
• Catawban languages

External links

• Siouan languages mailing list archive

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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