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Name: Kitsai
Type: Language
Alternate Name: Kichai
Once Spoken in: USA
Number of speakers: No known speakers. Ethnic population: 2,000 (1997 S. DeLancey) (Ethnologue)
Code: kii
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: LINGUIST List
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

Endangerment Status


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

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