Siouanadj.n.
/ˈsuːən/, U.S. /ˈsuən/ A. adj.
Of or relating to a family of languages spoken by the Sioux and related peoples such as Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Omaha; = Sioux adj. 2. Also: designating any or all of the peoples speaking such languages; of or relating to such peoples.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > of Sioux language family
Sioux1795
Dakota1809
Siouan1882
Omaha1897
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 829 The following is Mr. Dorsey's division of the Siouan linguistic stock:..Dhegiha... B. Kwapa-Dhegiha, includes Kwapas, Osages and Kansas.
1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 75 The Siouan group had its habitat on the prairies between the Mississippi and Missouri.
1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 367/2 Crows... A Siouan tribe forming part of the Hidatsa group.
1977 H. Landar in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. iii. 352 The signers were possessed of Siouan, not Algonquian, names.
2011 Anthropol. Linguistics 53 385 The Assiniboine speak Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family.
B. n.
1. The Siouan family of languages; a language of this family; = Sioux n. 2a.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family
Sioux1776
Siouan1885
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family > member of
Sioux1703
Dakota1837
Ponca1883
Siouan1885
Omaha1887
1885 J. O. Dorsey in Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1883 App. 919 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (48th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 69) XXXIV In honor of Albert Gallatin, who was the first to classify the Indians of this family as the ‘Sioux’, the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution has adopted the new term, ‘Siouan’, as the name of this family.
1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xiii. 362 Thus Siouan, Nahuatlan, Cariban, Guaranian are the collective names of families, of which Dakota, Aztec, Macusi and Tupi are respective sub-groups or branches.
1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States.
1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage iv. 112/1 Indians in Wisconsin..spoke Siouan.
2005 Anthropol. Linguistics 47 1 The conventional view has been that the languages of the Southeast..belonged to a relatively small number of language families, of which Muskogean and Siouan were the most widespread.
2. A member of the Siouan-speaking peoples; = Sioux n. 1.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Siouan
Assiniboine1690
Missouri1698
Osage1698
Santee1698
Teton1698
Yankton1698
Sioux1703
Kansa1722
Otoe1760
Omaha1761
Maha1778
Big Belly1785
Mandan1790
Minnetaree1796
Crow1801
Dakota1804
Gros Ventre1804
Kaw1804
Miniconjou1804
Ponca1804
Absaroka1812
Oglala1825
Missourian1833
Lakota1846
Dakotan1871
Hidatsa1873
Siouan1885
1885 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1883–5 3 80 The Cherokees, Choctaws.., and Siouans, and probably many other tribes, are known to have built mounds for domiciliary and burial purposes.
1900 Knowledge 2 July 153/2 Among the other Atlantic stocks are..the Siouans, some of the most famous tribes of the latter being the Sioux or Dakotas, and the Crows.
1980 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 93 302 Further south the Algonkin tribes were in contact with Iroquoians and Siouans.
2004 P. B. Lerch Waccamaw Legacy iii. 31 The story of the Siouans and other coastal tribes was retold in the great Pageant of the Lower Cape Fear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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