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Caddo language

Not to be confused with Cahto language.
Caddo
Hasí꞉nay
Native toUnited States
RegionCaddo County, western Oklahoma
Ethnicity45 Caddo people (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
2 (2023)[2]
Caddoan
  • Caddo
Dialects
  • Hasinai
  • Hainai
  • Kadohadacho
  • Natchitoches
  • Yatas
Language codes
ISO 639-2cad
ISO 639-3cad
Glottologcadd1256
ELPCaddo
Linguasphere64-BBA-a
Map showing the distribution of Oklahoma Indian Languages
Caddo is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Caddo is a Native American language, the traditional language of the Caddo Nation.[3] It is critically endangered, with no exclusively Caddo-speaking community and as of 2023 only two speakers who had acquired the language as children outside school instruction, down from 25 speakers in 1997.[1][2] Caddo has several mutually intelligible dialects. The most commonly used dialects are Hasinai and Hainai; others include Kadohadacho, Natchitoches and Yatasi.[4]

  1. ^ a b Caddo language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b "Only 2 people alive can speak the Caddo language fluently. They hope a new program can save it". KERA News. 2023-03-15. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  3. ^ The Linguist List
  4. ^ "Caddo Nation - Language". Caddo Nation. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2023-03-16.

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