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			dance 
			
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			o-zha (óža) 
			
			dance (RR-Quapaw) 
			
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						| Whole bunch of them dance all night.  (request) |  |  
						| 
			aⁿ-ba  
			
			o-zha  hne  za-ni  (ą́ba óža hné zaní) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			morning, 
			before daybreak - dance - request - all |  |  
			
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						| You white people go home and us Indians dance all night 
						
						
						(when the white people go home, I want just us Indians 
						to dance). |  |  
						| 
			
			wa-jhi-ni  kde  ta  zho-zhi-te  e-naⁿ 
			
			
			o-zha  
			koⁿ-bda  
			(waǰíni kdé taa žožítte éną óža kkǫbdá) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			
			white people - go home - when, future - Indians - only - dance - I 
			want |  |  
			
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						| You white people go home and dance all night.  
						(request) |  |  
						| 
			wa-jhi-ni  kde  ta  aⁿ-ba  
			
			o-zha  hne  (waǰíni kdé tta ą́ba óža hné) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			white people - go home - when, future - 
			morning, 
			before daybreak - dance - request |  |  
			
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						| Everybody come dance. |  |  
						| 
			za-ni  
			
			o-zha  ki-we  (zaní óža kiwé) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			all, everyone - dance - come, invitation |  |  
			
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						| Everybody come dance. |  |  
						| 
			
			o-zha  
			za-ni  ki-wa-we  (óža zaní  kiwawe) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			dance - all, everyone - come - plural |  |  
			
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						| You (all) come back again and dance. (request) |  |  
						| 
			shi-naⁿ  
			
			o-zha  kdi  hne  za-ni  (šíną óža kdi hné zaní) | Speaker - Maude Supernaw |  
						| 
			again and again - dance - come back here - request - all, everyone |  |  
			
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			Dhegiha Language Family Comparison 
				
				
				
				o-zha (óža) 
				- dance, o-a-zha (óaža) - I dance, o-da-zha 
				(ódaža) - you dance, oⁿ-ko-zha-we (ǫ́kožáwe) 
				- we dance (RR-Quapaw)
				
				
				o-zha (ŭjah) 
				- dance [danser] (GI-Quapaw)
				
				
				o-zha (o-câ) 
				- dance (LH-Quapaw) |