Representative Languages of each Family in 'Merganser'

Algonquian

 * 1) Ojibwe (of Central Algonquian)
 * 2) Mi'kmaq (of Eastern Algonquian)
 * 3) Arapaho (branch isolate)
 * 4) Cheyenne (of Menominee-Cheyenne)
 * 5) Cree (of Blackfoot-Cree)

Siouan

 * 1) Mandan (branch isolate)
 * 2) Crow (of Missouri Valley Siouan)
 * 3) Lakota (of Dakotan)
 * 4) Winnebago (of Chiwere-Winnebago)
 * 5) Omaha-Ponca (of Dhegihan)

Iroquoian

 * 1) Seneca (of Seneca-Cayuga)
 * 2) Mohawk (of Mohawk-Oneida)
 * 3) Onondaga (transitional Five Nations dialect)
 * 4) Wyandot (quasi-branch isolate)
 * 5) Tuscarora (of Tuscarora-Nottoway)

Caddoan

 * 1) Caddo (branch isolate)
 * 2) Arikara (of Pawnee-Arikara)
 * 3) Wichita (of Wichita-Kitsai)

Kiowa-Tanoan

 * 1) Kiowa (of Kiowa-Towa)
 * 2) Taos (of Tiwa-Tewa)

Uto-Aztecan

 * 1) Comanche (of Numic)
 * 2) Shoshone (of Numic)
 * 3) Hopi (branch isolate)

Athabaskan

 * 1) Plains Apache (of Apachean)