Adai language
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| Adai | |
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| Native to | United States |
| Region | Louisiana |
| Ethnicity | Adai people |
| Extinct | 19th century[1] |
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unclassified
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xad |
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Linguist list
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xad |
| Glottolog | adai1235[2] |
Pre-contact distribution of Adai
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Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is an extinct Native American language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana.
Classification[edit]
It is very poorly documented, being known only from a list of 275 words from 1804, so classification is probably impossible. It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.
References[edit]
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
External links[edit]
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