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Name:
Wichita
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Witchita; Wichita (proper)
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
1 (2008). Ethnic population: 1,400 (2000 D. Rood)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
10
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
3
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
wic
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Caddoan
Parent Subgroup:
Wichita (wich)
Child Dialects:
Waco (wic-wac)
Tawakoni (wic-taw)
Brief Description:
"Wichita is a Northern Caddoan language, spoken by the Wichita Tribe, formerly a confederacy of autonomous bands that until the late nineteenth century lived in an area extending from central Oklahoma through central Texas. Today they live in Caddo County in central Oklahoma, primarily in and around the town of Anadarko, an area in which the Caddo, Delaware, and Kiowa also live. There are fewer than ten elderly speakers of the language in a total tribal population of approximately 2,100." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
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