Kitsai language

Kitsai language

The Kitsai (also Kichai) language is an extinct Caddoan language. It was spoken in Oklahoma and became extinct in the 1930s. It is documented in the still mostly-unpublished fieldnotes of anthropologist Alexander Lesser. It is thought to be most closely related to Wichita.

References

http://www.native-languages.org/kitsai.htm

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/tejas/fundamentals/languages.html

http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=KII


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