siouan in English

noun
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a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux and related peoples, including Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Lakota, Mandan, Omaha, and Yankton.
The Monacan Nation is comprised primarily of descendants of the Siouan speaking Monacans, Tutelos, and Saponis.
adjective
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relating to the Siouan language family.
Members of the Siouan language family proper are to be found practically everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains except on the southern Plains and in the Northeast.

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1. Siouan languages can be grouped into the Western Siouan languages and Catawban languages.

2. The Algonquian Appellatives of the Siouan Tribes of Virginia is an article from American Anthropologist, Volume 8

3. Crow, North American Indians of Siouan linguistic stock, historically affiliated with the village-dwelling Hidatsa of the upper Missouri River

4. The birds, from the Midwest state of Siouan, are above their course to Calif. where they ambition be the honorary Grand Marshals of the Thanksgiving Day pageant by the funfair thought tract.

5. 16 The birds, from the Midwest state of Siouan, are above their course to Calif. where they ambition be the honorary Grand Marshals of the Thanksgiving Day pageant by the funfair thought tract.

6. The Assiniboine language (also known as Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakota, Nakoda, Nakon or Nakona, or Stoney) is a Nakotan Siouan language of the Northern Plains.The name Assiniboine comes from the term Asiniibwaan, from Ojibwe, meaning "Stone Siouans".The reason they were called this was that Assiniboine people used heated stone to boil their food.