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Adai language

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Native to
  
United States

Ethnicity
  
Adai people

Language family
  
unclassified

Region
  
Louisiana

Extinct
  
19th century

ISO 639-3
  
xad

Adai language

Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is an extinct Native American language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana.

Classification

It is very poorly documented, being known only from a list of 275 words from 1804, so classification is probably impossible. It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.

References

Adai language Wikipedia