While most of this answer is correct, a person would not use the term 'prat' to refer to their backside, it's a derogatory term used mainly to talk about a person and or their behavior e.g 'He was acting like a total prat'.. any spoken sound r â¦ epresented by the letter A or a, as in bake, hat, father, or small. 3. something having the shape of an A. 4. a written or printed representation of the letter A or a. 5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter A or a. From Dictionary.com. 1 person found this useful.
However, since the Mandan language has been in contact with Hidatsa and Crow for many years, the exact relationship between Mandan and other Siouan languages (including Hidatsa and Crow) has been obscured and is currently undetermined.
In this system, we operate with primary languages (the one you speak and can read and write), the secondary languages (the language or languages that is directly tied to your primary languages), lastly we have the tertiary languages (the ones that are connected to your secondary languages).ets call this Ur-speak. Then we could say that some of the oldest languages were built from that one language, meaning that they probably had something in common (languages such as draconic, celestial, giant, sylvan and the demonic tongues).