Crow–Hidatsa branch

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The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of language family
language subgroup
hasAlternativeName Missouri River Siouan
hasClassificationStatus generally accepted in Siouan comparative linguistics
hasDocumentationStatus well-documented compared to some other Siouan branches
hasEndangermentContext member languages are endangered or threatened
hasGeographicRegion Northern Plains of the United States
linked to: Great Plains
hasHistoricalContact Caddoan languages
Plains Algonquian languages
linked to: Plains Algonquian
hasHistoricalRegion Montana
North Dakota
Upper Missouri River region
hasLanguageFamily Siouan
linked to: Siouan languages
hasLinguisticRelationship Crow and Hidatsa are closely related
hasMemberEthnicGroup Crow people
Hidatsa people
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Crow–Hidatsa
hasReconstructionWork subject of comparative and reconstruction studies in Siouan linguistics
hasSubclassification Western Siouan
hasTypology polysynthetic language structure
hasWordOrder primarily SOV
includesLanguage Crow language
Hidatsa language
partOf Siouan language family
linked to: Siouan languages
subgroupOf Siouan language family
linked to: Siouan languages

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Crow language subfamilyOf Crow–Hidatsa branch
Hidatsa language belongsTo Missouri River Siouan subgroup
linked to: Crow–Hidatsa branch
Crow–Hidatsa branch hasProtoLanguage Proto-Crow–Hidatsa
linked to: Crow–Hidatsa branch