Siouxan

Or, he continues, we use a general classical adjective suffix -- the language of the Sioux is called Siouxan I believe not because -an is an adjective suffix from the native English rootstock, nor because it is how the Sioux describe themselves, but because it is a Latin adjective suffix which was natural for scholars to use.

languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

I bore up sharp, for I don't suppose I'd heard Siouxan spoken in more than twenty years-and then I stood amazed.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Beyond that, my ability to read sign was limited, but by talking with Carson and a Sans Arc guide who rode with us, I polished up my Siouxan and became quite fluent, and few of my languages have proved more vital than that one, for it was the lingua franca from Mexico to Canada, and from the Missouri to the Divide, and is so beautiful that I even continued to study it in England.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"That was Standing Bear who said that," says he in Siouxan.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

And he began to chant in Siouxan, about how he had slain six pony-soldiers that day, including a Washechuska English soldier-chief with a watch from Bond Street which was still going and the time was ten past five.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

For I had jerked automatically as it dawned on me-to the Minneconju he'd spoken Siouxan, but all the words he'd addressed to me had been in English!

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"You speak Siouxan?" says Grant to me, quite sharp.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

My gift of language has always been good enough to enable me to turn my mind instantly to any tongue I've ever learned, no matter how long ago, so that within a minute of our meeting I was thinking in Siouxan.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The Siouxan words are given here as Flashman has written them in his manuscript, and are to be found in S.R. R.gg's Dakota-English Dictionary, 1890.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The sonorous drone of the Siouxan words, the liquid movements of his hands as he followed the names in sign-language, lulled the meaning away from me for a moment.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010