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Download or read book The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages (Esprios Classics) written by A. W. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In my father's opinion the Dakota dialects differ about as much as the Greek dialects did in the time of Homer, and the Assinniboin is much nearer to the Yankton dialect of which it is an offshoot than is the Titon. Judging by the vocabularies to which I have access chiefly in Hayden's "Indian tribes of the Missouri," I would suppose the first group to differ from the Dakota about as much as the German from the English, and to differ among themselves somewhat as Hollandish, Friesian, and English. The Mandan appears to be separated much more widely from them than they are from each other."