Adai language

Adai
Native to	United States
Region	Louisiana
Ethnicity	Adai people
Extinct	19th century[1]
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xad
Linguist list	xad
Glottolog	adai1235[2]
Pre-contact distribution of Adai

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

Classification

It is very poorly documented, being known only from a list of 275 words from 1804, so classification is probably impossible. It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.

References

1. Adai at MultiTree on the Linguist List
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Adai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5
• Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

External links

• OLAC resources in and about the Adai language