Caddoan

American  

[kad-oh-uhn] / ˈkæd oʊ ən /

noun

1. a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the upper Missouri valley in North Dakota, in the Platte valley in Nebraska, in southwestern Arkansas, and in neighboring parts of Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

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Caddoan British  

/ ˈkædəʊən /

noun

1. a family of Native American languages, including Pawnee, formerly spoken in a wide area of the Midwest, and probably distantly related to Siouan

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Etymology

Origin of Caddoan

Caddo + -an

Example Sentences

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Caddoan

They spoke a Caddoan language, one related to that of the Arikara, Pawnee and Wichita.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015

Between the visits of De Soto and La Salle, according to Timothy K. Perttula, an archaeological consultant in Austin, Texas, the Caddoan population fell from about 200,000 to about 8,500—a drop of nearly 96 percent.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Other nations of the Caddoan race are the Pawnees, the Wichita and the Waco farther south.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)

Thus the general movement of many Siouan tribes has been westward, that of some Algonquian groups southward from their earlier habitats, and the Caddoan appear to have gradually gone northward.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

Byron-Gordon G., 397 Caddo, the, 355 Caddoan linguistic stock, the, 355, 381 Cagayans, the, 247 California, Indians of, 368 sqq.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court