Wichita

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Last update: 2017-6-18

Wichita is a Caddoan language spoken near Anadarko, Oklahoma, USA. There are 2100 enrolled tribal members but only about 10 elderly people actually speak the language.

The language is structurally prototypical of polysynthetic languages; i.e. most of the information in an utterance is contained in bound verbal morphology.

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