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KIOWA LINGUISTIC AFFINITY 



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predatory tribes of the southern pliiins. Their linguistic affinity is 

 still uncertain, the language apparently having no connection with that 

 of any other tribe. This uncertainty, however, is due largely to the 

 paucity of the linguistic material thus far collecti'd from them, and to 



Plint.. liy Sruile, :a»>ul ls;0 



Fig. 43— Zej>ko-(;L^tte or Big-bow 



the fact that philologists have made the comparison with the languages 

 of the southern tribes, with whom the Kiowa were found most closely 

 associated, rather than with that of tribes nearer the Canadian border, 

 whence they have drifted to the south. Another thing which serves to 



