Adai language
| Adai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Louisiana |
| Ethnicity | Adai people |
| Extinct | 19th century[1] |
|
unclassified | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xad |
Linguist list |
xad |
| Glottolog |
adai1235[2] |
|
Pre-contact distribution of Adai | |
Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is an extinct Native American language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana.
Classification
It is very poorly documented, being known only from a list of 275 words from 1804, so classification is probably impossible. It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.
References
- ↑ Adai at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Adai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
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