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Adai language

Extinct Native American language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adai language
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Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is an extinct Native American language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana.

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Classification

It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.[3]

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Adai is known only from a list of 275 words from 1804 by John Sibley.[4] The manuscript word list below has been reproduced from Grant's (1995) transcriptions.[3] (Note: Due to the poor printing in Grant (1995), the text below may not be entirely accurate and will need to be re-checked.)

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Notable places language was spoken

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