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  2. Caddo language - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, a Caddo app is available for Android phones. [7] As of 2012, the Caddo Nation teaches weekly language classes; language CDs, a coloring book, and an online learning website are also available. [8] [9] There is a Caddo grammar, published August 2018, [10] and an in-depth examination of the Caddo verb, published in 2004. [11]

  3. Caddoan languages - Wikipedia

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    Adai, a language isolate from Louisiana is known only from a 275-word list collected in 1804, and may be a Caddoan language, however documentation is too scanty to determine with certainty. [3] Adjacent to the Caddo lived the Eyeish or Ais—not to be confused with the Ais of Florida—who also spoke a language that may have been related to ...

  4. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)

  5. Ouachita people - Wikipedia

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    According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the name comes from the French transliteration of the Caddo word washita, meaning "good hunting grounds". [7] Louis R. Harlan claimed that "Ouachita" is composed of the Choctaw words ouac for buffalo and chito for large, together meaning "country of large buffaloes".

  6. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Brahmic scripts spread in a peaceful manner, Indianization, or the spread of Indian learning. The scripts spread naturally to Southeast Asia, at ports on trading routes. [ 2 ] At these trading posts, ancient inscriptions have been found in Sanskrit, using scripts that originated in India.

  7. Caddo - Wikipedia

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    The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma.They speak the Caddo language.. The Caddo Confederacy was a network of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands, who historically inhabited much of what is now northeast Texas, west Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas, and southeastern Oklahoma. [2]

  8. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    The generic name comes from Nohoch ("great") and ich'ak ("claw"), a translation of the Greek family name Megalonychidae. The specific name is from Xibalba ("the underworld") and ahkah ("dweller") [181] Nopal (Opuntia cochinellifera) cactus: Nahuatl: From nohpalli, via Spanish [citation needed] Nystalus chacuru (white-eared puffbird) puffbird ...

  9. Yatasi - Wikipedia

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    On 21 April 1770, French-born Indian agent of Spanish Louisiana, Athanase De Mézières y Clugny (c. 1715–1779) presented the Yatasi chief with a medal and presents from the King of Spain. [9] That day the Kadohadacho and Yatasi both agreed to allow Spain proprietorship of their lands and promised not to supply the Comanche , Wichita ...