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The Caddo Nation is making a concentrated effort to save the Caddo language. The Kiwat Hasí꞉nay ('Caddo Home') foundation, located at the tribal home of Binger, Oklahoma, offers regular Caddo language classes, in addition to creating dictionaries, phrase books, and other Caddo language resources.
The Caddoan languages are a family of languages native to the Great Plains spoken by tribal groups of the central United States, from present-day North Dakota south to Oklahoma. All Caddoan languages are critically endangered, as the number of speakers has declined markedly due to colonial legacy, lack of support, and other factors.
The Pawnee language is a Caddoan language traditionally spoken by Pawnee Native Americans, currently inhabiting north-central Oklahoma. Historically, the Pawnee lived along the Platte River in what is now Nebraska .
The Kadohadacho are enrolled members of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma, along with the Hasinai, the Hainai, and other Caddo tribes. [6] The Kadohadacho dialect of the Caddo language, closely related to the Hasinai and Natchitoche dialects, is still spoken today.
Endangered Caddoan languages (4 P) Pages in category "Caddoan languages" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Utah – from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up". [ 30 ] Wisconsin – originally "Mescousing", from an Algonquian language , though the source and meaning is not entirely clear; most likely from the Miami word Meskonsing meaning "it lies red" [ 31 ] [ 32 ] (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin ).
Wichita is a Caddoan language spoken in Anadarko, Oklahoma by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.The last fluent heritage speaker, Doris Lamar-McLemore, died in 2016, [2] although in 2007 there were three first-language speakers alive. [3]
Arikara is a Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Native Americans who reside primarily at Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Arikara is close to the Pawnee language, but they are not mutually intelligible. The Arikara were apparently a group met by Lewis and Clark in 1804; their population of 30,000 was reduced to 6,000 by smallpox. [3]