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Caddo
Hasí:nay
Spoken in: United States 
Region: Caddo County in western Oklahoma
Total speakers: 25
Language family: Caddoan
 Southern Caddoan
  Caddo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cad
ISO 639-3: cad
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Caddo is a Caddoan language of the Southern Plains, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. The Caddoan languages are a family of Native American languages. The Caddo are a nation or group of tribes of Southeastern Native Americans who in the 16th century inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Few native speakers remain, but the tribe is working to teach the language to the youngest generation again.

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Phonology

Vowels

Caddo has three short vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/ and three long vowels, /iː/, /aː/, and /uː/. The long vowels are indicated in writing with a following colon.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive Voiceless p t k ʔ
Voiced b d
Ejective tʼ kʼ
Affricate Voiceless ts tʃ
Ejective tsʼ tʃʼ
Fricative s ʃ h
Approximant j w

Prosody

Caddo apparently has three tones: mid (unmarked: a), high (marked with an acute accent: á), and falling (marked with a grave accent: à)

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In Phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a Consonant articulated with both Lips The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior Alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets Palatal consonants are Consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the Hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth Glottal consonants are Consonants articulated with the Glottis. A nasal consonant (also called nasal stop or nasal continuant) is produced with a lowered velum in the mouth allowing air to escape freely through the A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a Consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the Vocal tract. Voice or voicing is a term used in Phonetics and Phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless Voice or voicing is a term used in Phonetics and Phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless In Phonetics, ejective consonants are Voiceless Consonants that are pronounced with simultaneous closure of the Glottis. Affricate Consonants begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as or) but release as a fricative (such as or or occasionally into Voice or voicing is a term used in Phonetics and Phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless In Phonetics, ejective consonants are Voiceless Consonants that are pronounced with simultaneous closure of the Glottis. Fricatives are Consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together Approximants are speech sounds ( Phonemes) that could be regarded as intermediate between Vowels and typical Consonants In the articulation of approximants
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