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  Caddoan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caddoan languages are a family of Native American languages.
Adai, a language isolate known only from a 275-word list, may be a Caddoan language, but the documentation is too scanty to determine with certainty.
Caddoan as part of Macro-Siouan is a possibility, but more research is required to determine the validity of this proposal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caddoan_languages   (235 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Languages in the United States
Navajo is one of the Athabascan languages of the Na-Dené family.
The Choctaw language, traditionally spoken by the Native American Choctaw tribe of the southeastern United States, is a member of the Muskogean family.
A language isolate, the Keres are the largest of the Pueblo nations.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Languages-in-the-United-States   (9854 words)

  
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Hamito-Semitic languages -> The Semitic Subfamily The Semitic languages are named after Shem or Sem, the oldest son of Noah, from whom most of the languages' speakers were said to be descended.
Afroasiatic languages -> The Semitic Languages The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent tongue, proto-Semitic.
Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Caddoan+languages   (537 words)

  
 Caddoan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
The Caddoan languages are a ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera) family of (additional info and facts about Native American languages) Native American languages.
Arikara is spoken on the Fort Berthold Reservation in (A state of north central United States bordering on Canada) North Dakota; Caddo, Wichita, and Pawnee are presently spoken in Oklahoma; Kitsai is extinct.
The (The Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee people) Pawnee formerly lived along the (A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River) Platte River in what is now (A midwestern state on the Great Plains) Nebraska.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caddoan_languages.htm   (176 words)

  
 Language families and languages - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
open-encyclopedia.com /Language_families_and_languages   (501 words)

  
 Caddo language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caddo_language   (129 words)

  
 Siouan languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
North American Indian family of languages that, with the Iroquoian and Caddoan language families, constitutes the Macro-Siouan language phylum.
The American Indian languages do not form a single historically interrelated stock (as do the Indo-European languages), nor are there any structural features (in phonetics, grammar, or vocabulary) whereby American Indian languages can be distinguished as a whole from...
Brahui, a Dravidian language, is used in Pakistan and Iran.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067966   (742 words)

  
 Siouan Languages and Related Subjects
Subsequent to that I was an associate at the now defunct SILP (Study of Indigenous Languages Program), originally known as the Center for the Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest (CeSNaLPS) - or the Plains Center for short.
I don't mind answering questions on Siouan languages, including things like "What's the word for [your choice]?", or "Is there a word for [your choice]?", but if what you really need is a good reference work of some kind, and I know it exists, you might get a bibliographical citation instead.
It's not want of pleasantness on the part of the speakers of the languages, of course, just cultural differences on what formulas are needed and how much contextual variation there may be in the formulas that exist.
spot.colorado.edu /~koontz   (623 words)

  
 Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group.
www.native-languages.org   (1052 words)

  
 Macro-Siouan languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The language families included in Macro-Algonquian are Algonquian, with 13 languages; Yurok, with 1 language; Wiyot, with 1 language; Muskogean, with 4 languages; and Natchez, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Tonkawa, with 1...
The Slavic languages are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European...
The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049856   (746 words)

  
 The Siouan Languages Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
Dorsey, J. The Degiha language, the speech of the Omaha and Ponka tribes of the Siouan linguistic familay of North America Indians.
proceedings of the 1992 Mid-America Linguistics Confernce on Siouan and Caddoan languages, university of Missouri, Columbia.
Taylor, A. “On verbs of motion in Siouan languages.” IJAL 42: 287-96.
puffin.creighton.edu /lakota/siouan_language.html   (6970 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Caddoan languages
Two major language families on the prairies are Siouan and Caddo.
Pawnee, Native American tribe of the Caddoan language family and of the Great Plains culture area.
A bibliography is a list of the sources you used in your research.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Caddoan+languages   (206 words)

  
 Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics Conference 2004
The conference is devoted to linguistic issues related to the Siouan and Caddoan language families.
The conference is traditionally held within the states of the United States of America or provinces of Canada in which Siouan and Caddoan languages were once spoken, though this principle is sometimes honored in the breech.
There is sometimes a parasession on Dhegiha linguistics or a separate meeting on it at a different time, a tradition initiated by Mark Swetland in 1999 with the Niskithe Meeting.
spot.colorado.edu /~koontz/sacc.htm   (157 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Southeastern Native Americans who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, Western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The Caddo historically consisted of three confederacies of at least twenty five different tribes and spoke a variety of dialects of the Caddoan languages.
Today the Caddo are a cohesive tribe with their capital at Binger, Oklahoma, and the Caddoan dialects have converged into a single language.
www.everybase.com /Caddo   (577 words)

  
 Faculty Profile: Douglas R. Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
The ultimate goal of that work is to contribute to the reconstruction of American Indian culture history generally, but the focus of it is the study of the languages of the Great Plains, particularly the Caddoan and Siouan peoples.
Another dimension of my career is native North American philology, the study of older linguistic records of American Indian languages, and the combination of American Indian language research with the writing and interpretation of history.
Finally, a fundamental part of my study of endangered languages and North American culture history is the recording, editing, and translating of native language texts, both those recorded from contemporary raconteurs and those in documentary collections of stories compiled earlier in the century.
www.iun.edu /~anthro/people/parks.html   (708 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 15.507: General Ling/Korea; General Ling/USA
Papers and presentations address Siouan or Caddoan languages from a variety of theoretical, descriptive, and applied perspectives.
The 24th annual meeting of the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will be held June 11-13, 2004, at Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska.
Papers and presentations are invited on any Siouan or Caddoan language.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-507.html   (600 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
The Siouan And Caddoan Languages Conference is an annual gathering of linguists and others interested in the Siouan and Caddoan families of languages.
Members of Siouan or Caddoan speaking communities/tribes are encouraged to attend, either as presenters or observers.
Students are especially encouraged to present, even if their work on a Siouan or Caddoan language is at an early stage.
wings.buffalo.edu /linguistics/ssila/SACCweb/SACC.htm   (155 words)

  
 Caddo Indian Tribe - American Indian Nations
The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Native Americans who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, Western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.
At one time both the Wichita and Pawnee were part of the same nation as the Caddo, a fact attested to in that the Whichita and Pawnee spoke Caddoan languages.
The Caddo tribes were divided into three confederacies, which were linked by a common language; the Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and the Natchitoches.
www.comanchelodge.com /nations/caddo-tribe.html   (546 words)

  
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American Indian Languages Spoken at Home by American Indian Persons 5 Years and Over in Households: 1990 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Release date: August 1995 (Data are estimates based on a sample) United States United Region Region States Northeast American Indian languages...............
Source: Racial Statistics Branch Population Division Bureau of Census Washington, DC 20233 The data in this table are consistent with those published in 1990 CP-3-7, 1990 Census of Population, "Characteristics of American Indians by Tribe and Language," issued July 1994.
The Subject Summary Tape File (SSTF) 13, "Characteristics of American Indians by Tribe and Language," can be ordered from the Census Bureau's Customer Service Office on (301) 763-INFO(4636) or FAX (301) 457-3842.
www.census.gov /population/socdemo/race/indian/ailang3.txt   (246 words)

  
 AISRI at Indiana University
The AISRI Northern Caddoan Linguistic Text Corpora Portal is a gateway to texts and narratives in Arikara, Skiri Pawnee, and South Band Pawnee.
Those languages, all endangered, are distributed from the Yukon, down through the Northwest Coast, across the Great Plains, and to the East Coast.
In the course of descriptive work with these languages, AISRI staff have developed new tools for documenting and analyzing them as well as for disseminating their studies in both research and pedagogical formats.
www.indiana.edu /~aisri/projects/research.shtml   (461 words)

  
 Arikara Language
Arikara is a Caddoan language of the Great Plains.
The people and their language are sometimes referred to as Arikari, Arikaree, or just Ree, but they call themselves Sanish or Sahnish.
The Arikara language has been in decline and is spoken today by fewer than a hundred elders, but some young people are working to keep their ancestral language alive.
www.native-languages.org /arikara.htm   (197 words)

  
 Native American Indian Languages Spoken at Home
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Release date: August 1995 (Data are estimates based on a sample) United States United Region Region States Northeast American Indian languages...............
American Indian Languages Spoken at Home by American Indian Persons 5 Years and Over in Households: 1990--Con.
More detailed languages are available from the report mentioned below.
www.500nations.com /tribes/Tribes_CensusLanguages.asp   (138 words)

  
 individual book page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
Four of these are on Plains languages: Ives Goddard’s “The Languages of the Plains: Introduction” provides an overview of the linguistic diversity of the area (skillfully illustrated by comparative lexical data), with general comments on the Plains languages other than Algonquian, Caddoan, and Siouan, i.e.
The Caddoan and Siouan articles also contain sections on comparative phonology, major structural characteristics of the family, and borrowings, and are extremely useful summaries of information on the respective families.
But DeMallie (the second editor; he took over from the late William W. Bittle in 1983) has done a splendid job of ensuring that recent research is taken into account, and all of the language articles are thoroughly up-to-date.
linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/books/indbook/b230.htm   (264 words)

  
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www.linguistsoftware.com /trm.htm   (676 words)

  
 biology - Pawnee
In the 19th century, epidemics of smallpox and cholera wiped out most of the Pawnee, reducing the population to approximately 600 by the year 1900; as of 2002, there are approximately 2500 Pawnee.
Descended from Caddoan linguistic stock, the Pawnee are not typically known as Plains Indians in the context of traditional representations; their villages constructed of earthen lodges tended to be permanent.
They were an agricultural people who grew maize, beans, pumpkins and squash.
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Pawnee   (1079 words)

  
 Scott DeLancey Publications--by date
Lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem construction in Klamath.
Penutian in the bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic correspondences.
Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp.
www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/pubs/pubchron.html   (505 words)

  
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