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

The Caddoan group, dwelling formerly west of the Mississippi, in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, had an approach to specific totemism.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow

I can get by in the tongue of the Iroquois, the Caddoan, the Siouan, and the Muskhogean.

From Call Him Savage by John Pollard

The Caddoan family is less clearly defined than either of the preceding, but evidently consisted of many small tribes grouped, and forming confederacies.

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