Hidatsa
hiraaciré’
Hidatsa is a Siouan language spoken in United States. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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Hidatsa ( hih-DAHT-sə) is an endangered Siouan language that is related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe, primarily in North Dakota and South Dakota.
A description of Hidatsa-Mandan culture, including a grammar and vocabulary of the language, was published in 1877 by Washington Matthews, a government physician who lived among the Hidatsa at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
More recently, the language has been the subject of work in the generative grammar tradition.
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Words in Hidatsa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | mia | |
| name | dazi* | |
| eye | iSta* | |
| ear | akuxi* | |
| nose | apa* | |
| tooth | iSa* | |
| tongue | dezi* | |
| hand | iSaki* | |
| heart | náada | |
| blood | idi* | |
| bone | hidu* | |
| skin | odalipi* | |
| knee | iliualia* | |
| breast | imaki* | |
| liver | apiSa* | |
| water | mini | |
| fire | midaha* | |
| sun | mapemidi* | |
| star | ixka* | |
| rain | xarée | |
| stone | mi* | |
| mountain | amaliami* | |
| leaf | midapa* | |
| night | maku* | |
| dog | maSuka* | |
| fish | mua* | |
| one | dueca* | |
| two | dopa* | |
| I | ma* | |
| you | da* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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