Siouan-Catawban languages
- 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-Catawban languages
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 language "(†)"
: II. "Catawban" (a.k.a. Eastern Siouan) "(†)":: 18. Woccon "(†)":: 19. Catawba "(†)"
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.
ee also
* Siouan languages
* Catawban languages
External links
* [http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/siouan.html 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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