Arikara language

Arikara
Sáhniš
Native toUnited States
RegionNorth-central North Dakota
Ethnicity792 Arikara (2010 census)[1]
Native speakers
10 (2007)[2]
Caddoan
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3ari
Glottologarik1262
ELPArikara
Linguasphere64-BAA-a
Arikara language distribution
Arikara is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Arikara is a Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Native Americans who reside primarily at Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Arikara is close to the Pawnee language, but they are not mutually intelligible.

The Arikara were apparently a group met by Lewis and Clark in 1804; their population of 30,000 was reduced to 6,000 by smallpox.[3]

  1. ^ "2010 Census CPH-T-6. American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2010" (PDF). census.gov. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. ^ "Arikara". Retrieved 2015-08-29.

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