siouan-speaking

1. 1.

   able to communicate in a Siouan language

   Similarcommunicative

Questions about siouan-speaking

What does siouan-speaking mean?

siouan-speaking means "able to communicate in a Siouan language".

How many syllables are in siouan-speaking?

siouan-speaking has 6 syllables and divides as si-o-u-an--spea-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is siouan-speaking a common word?

siouan-speaking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.