Adai language

Adai
Native to United States
Region Louisiana
Ethnicity Adai people
Extinct 19th century[1]
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.

External links

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