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Name: Kitsai Alternate Name: Kichai Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: No known speakers. Ethnic population: 2,000 (1997 S. DeLancey) (Ethnologue) Code: kii Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Caddoan Parent Subgroup: Kitsai (kits) Brief Description: "Kitsai was the Northern Caddoan language of a tribe that formerly lived south of the Wichitas in east Texas, but which joined the Wichitas in Oklahoma in 1858. Kitsai continued to be spoken alongside Wichita for two or three generations, and then died out. The language was moderately well documented in 1929-30 from the last speaker, who died in 1940." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed