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 The Siouan Languages Bibliography
Siouan, Dakota (Teton and Santee Dialects) with remarks on the Ponca and Winnebago.
proceedings of the 1992 Mid-America Linguistics Confernce on Siouan and Caddoan languages, university of Missouri, Columbia.
Taylor, A. “On verbs of motion in Siouan languages.” IJAL 42: 287-96.
www.puffin.creighton.edu /lakota/siouan_language.html   (6970 words)

  
 Native American languages: Languages of North America
The Algonquian-Wakashan language family of North America was one of the most widespread of Native American linguistic stocks; in historical times, tribes speaking its languages extended from coast to coast.
Among the tribes speaking Salishan languages are the Bella Coola, Klallam, Coeur d'Alene, Colville, Nisqualli, Okanogan, Pend d'Oreille, Puyallup, Salish or Flathead, Shuswap, Spokan, and Tillamook.
The languages of the Tanoan branch of Aztec-Tanoan are spoken in the Rio Grande valley, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Quapaw Indians
They are of Siouan linguistic stock, speaking the same language, spoken also with dialectic variants, by the Osage and Kansa (Kaw) in the south and by the Omaha and Ponca in Nebraska.
Ethnology (Washington, 1890), and Siouan Sociology in 15th Rept.
London, 1763-74); Lettres édifiantes et curieuses (Du Poisson letters), IV (Lyons, 1819); MARGRY, Découvertes et établissements des Français etc. (Paris, 1879-86); PILLING, Bibliography of the Siouan Languages in Bull.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12591b.htm   (1127 words)

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