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Name: Caddo Type: Language Alternate Names: Kadohadacho; Petit Caddo; Upper Nasoni; Nanatsaho; Kado; Caddoe Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 25 (1997 W. Chafe). No monolinguals (2000 Levy). Ethnic population: 45 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 25 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 25 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: cad Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Caddoan Parent Subgroup: Southern Caddoan; Southern Caddo (scad) Brief Description: "Caddo is the sole surviving member of the Southern branch of the Caddoan family, remotely related to members of the Northern branch. The modern Caddo Tribe was formerly an aggregate of numerous autonomous bands speaking distinctive dialects, and organised into at least three confederacies that were distributed over a vast area of eastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, and northern Louisiana. During the nineteenth century the remnants of those groups settled in present Caddo County, Oklahoma, primarily in the vicinity of Anadarko and Binger. Currently, the language is spoken by fewer than 25 elderly members of the tribe, and only remnants of the former dialectal diversity survive." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 11

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered