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The Caddoan languages are a family of Native American languages. They are spoken by Native Americans in parts of the Great Plains of the central United States, from North Dakota south to Oklahoma. ==Family division== Five languages belong to the Caddoan language family: * Caddo (dialects: Kadohadacho, Hasinai, Natchitoches, Yatasi) * Northern Caddoan * * Wichita (dialects: KirikirɁi:s (aka, Wichita Proper), Waco, Tawakoni) * * Pawnee–Kitsai * * * Kitsai (also known as Kichai) ''(†)'' * * * Pawnee * * * * Arikara (also known as Ree) * * * * Pawnee (dialects: South Band, Skiri ''(also known as Skidi or Wolf)) The Kitsai language is now extinct, as its members were absorbed in the 19th century into the Wichita tribe. All of the other Caddoan languages are critically endangered; Caddo is now spoken by only 25 people, Pawnee by 20, Arikara by three, and Wichita by just one tribal elder, Doris McLemore. Caddo, Wichita, and Pawnee are spoken in Oklahoma by small numbers of tribal elders. Arikara is spoken on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Speakers of some of the languages were formerly more widespread; the Caddo, for example, used to live in northeastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana, as well as southeastern Oklahoma. The Pawnee formerly lived along the Platte River in what is now Nebraska. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caddoan languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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