Caddo language
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| Caddo Hasí:nay |
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Caddo County in western Oklahoma | |
| Total speakers: | 25 | |
| Language family: | Caddoan Southern Caddoan Caddo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cad | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | cad | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Caddo is a Caddoan language of the Southern Plains, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. Few native speakers remain, but the tribe is working to teach the language to the youngest generation again.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
Caddo has three short vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/ and three long vowels, /iː/, /aː/, and /uː/. The long vowels are indicated in writing with a following colon.
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | ||||
| Ejective | tʼ | kʼ | ||||
| Affricate | Voiceless | ʦ | ʧ | |||
| Ejective | ʦʼ | ʧʼ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
[edit] Prosody
Caddo apparently has three tones: mid (unmarked: a), high (marked with an acute accent: á), and falling (marked with a grave accent: à)
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report for Caddo
- Kiwat Hasinay Foundation
- Caddo Alphabet (PDF)
- Kúhaʔahat Oklahoma! - How to say "hello" in Caddo
- http://i.1asphost.com/caddo/ - WebLex: The English to Caddo (Hasinai) Search Engine, created by Michael Sheyahshe
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