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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

See also

External links

Bibliography

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.