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Language code: sio

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sio

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The table below provides technical details for the Siouan languages language, designated by the sio code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sio

Name

Siouan languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
LakotaDakotaCrowOsageHo-Chunk
Key facts
Siouan represents a family of roughly twenty historically related North American languagesMost member languages are now endangered, some with only a handful of fluent speakersSiouan grammars are polysynthetic and verb-focused, using extensive affixation to mark person, number and aspectComparative work groups Siouan together with Catawban under the proposed Siouan-Catawban stockRevitalization efforts include community schools, online courses and the recently devised Osage syllabary.
Sample phrase

Hau, toníktuka he?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Siouan languages language, identified by the code sio, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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