previously west-central Oklahoma and eastern Texas
Ethnicity
Kichai
Extinct
1940, with the death of Kai Kai[1]
Language family
Caddoan
Northern
Pawnee–Kitsai
Kitsai
Language codes
ISO 639-3
kii
Glottolog
kits1249
Linguasphere
64-BAB-a
The Kitsai (also Kichai) language is an extinct member of the Caddoan language family.[2] The French first record the Kichai people's presence along the upper Red River in 1701.[3] By the 1840s Kitsai was spoken in southern Oklahoma, but by the 1930s no native speakers remained. It is thought to be most closely related to Pawnee.[4][5] The Kichai people today are enrolled in the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi), Waco and Tawakonie), headquartered in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
^"Kitsai". Ethnologue. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
^Sturtevant and Fogelson, 616
^"Kichai Tribe". Access Genealogy. July 9, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
^Sturtevant and Fogelson, 68
^Kitsai language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) (retrieved 3 May 2010)
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