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Hidatsa /hɪˈdɑːtsə/ is an endangered Siouan language closely related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe primarily in North Dakota and South Dakota.A description of Hidatsa-Mandan culture including a grammar and vocabulary of the language was published in 1877 by Washington Matthews a government physician who lived among the Hidatsa at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.More recently the Hidatsa language was the subject of work in the generative grammar tradition.