Re: inactivo Dakota

[Jerry Olson <jerryolson@xxxxxxx>]

Art, it was a typo. and I've never heard of Siouan. Everything up here
is Sioux. Just because I've never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't
exist though... :). 

Jerry



Arthur Entlich wrote:
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> Actually we are both right and both wrong.  I made a typographical
> error.  The language I was referring to is actually spelled "Siouan",
> confirmed in 3 different dictionaries.
> 
> Siouan: A large American Indian language family spoken from Lake
> Michigan to the Rocky Mountains and southward to Arkansas by many tribes
> including the Omaha, Iowa, Winnebago, Sioux and Crow groups.
> 
> Sioux: Any of various groups of Siouan-speaking North American Indian
> peoples formerly occupying parts of the Great Plains in the Dakotas,
> Minnesota and Nebraska.
> 
> However, the term Sioux (not Siouxian) can also refer to the language
> spoken specifically by the Dakota Indians, which is a subclass of the
> Siouan language.
> 
> Then again, you spelled Espaņol! as Espņol (see below), and I didn't get
> on your case about that, as I'm sure it was a typo.
> 
> Jerry said:
> 
>  >Manuel, No hablo Espņol!
> 
>  >Jerry
> 
> Art
> 
> Jerry Olson wrote:
> 
> > That's SIOUXian
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> >>>They don't speak much Spanish in North Dakota.  In fact, I have heard that
> >>>they don't speak much period in North Dakota. :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Oh, I must have gotten it confused with SOUTH Dakota ;-)
> >>
> >>Anyway, I thought they merged after the wall came down.  ;-)
> >>
> >>I hope they at least speak a bit of Siouian Dakota there...
> >>
> >>Art
> >>
> >>-
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