| Adai | |
|---|---|
| Adaizan, Adaize | |
| Tenánat Hadéyas | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Louisiana |
| Ethnicity | Adai people |
| Extinct | late 19th century1 |
| Revival | 2 |
unclassified | |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xad |
| Glottolog | adai1235 |
| Linguasphere | 64-BCA-a |
 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 was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.3
Vocabulary
Adai is known only from a list of 275 words from 1804 by John Sibley.4
References
References
- Adai at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- "Our Language – ADAI CADDO INDIAN NATION". Retrieved 2025-03-22.
- Grant, Anthony P. 1995. John Sibley's Adai vocabulary: a contribution to Caddoan Lexicography? Paper presented at 1995 Siouan-Caddoan Conference, Albuquerque. 15pp. (Contains the entire vocabulary of Adai from MS in American Philosophical Soc.)
- Sibley, John. 1804. A vocabulary of the Adaye or Adaize Indians. Manuscript. (See also Mithridates Vol. 3, part 3., p. 278.)
- 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.