Wichita language

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The Wichita language is an extinct Caddoan language once spoken by the Wichita and affiliated tribes of the Southern Plains in the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Caddoan language
extinct language
indigenous language of North America
alignment nominative–accusative
associatedTribe Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRole traditional ceremonial language of the Wichita people
documentedBy David S. Rood NERFINISHED
R. L. Hoijer NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Tawakoni people NERFINISHED
Waco people NERFINISHED
Wichita people NERFINISHED
extinctionCause language shift to English
hasAlternativeName Kirikirʔi:s language NERFINISHED
Wichita-Tawakoni NERFINISHED
hasDialects Tawakoni dialect NERFINISHED
Waco dialect
Wichita dialect
hasDocumentationType audio recordings
grammatical descriptions
text collections
hasGlottocode wich1260
hasISO6393Code wic
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
verb-heavy morphology
hasObjectAgreement yes
hasStressPattern predictable stress system
hasSubjectAgreement yes
historicalRegion Oklahoma NERFINISHED
Texas NERFINISHED
isPartOf Northern Caddoan branch NERFINISHED
languageFamily Caddoan languages NERFINISHED
languageRevitalizationEffort Wichita and Affiliated Tribes language programs
languageStatus extinct
lastKnownFluentSpeaker Doris McLemore NERFINISHED
lastSpeakerDied 2016
linguisticArea Southern Plains linguistic area NERFINISHED
morphologicalType polysynthetic language
neighboringLanguages Caddo language NERFINISHED
Comanche language NERFINISHED
Kiowa language NERFINISHED
Pawnee language
phonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
small vowel inventory
region Southern Plains NERFINISHED
spokenBy Wichita and Affiliated Tribes NERFINISHED
wordOrder verb–initial
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caddoan languages hasPart Wichita language
Caddoan languages languageFamilyOf Wichita language
Caddoan languages hasLivingMember Wichita language