It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby
Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.[2]
Vocabulary
Adai is known only from a list of 275 words from 1804 by John Sibley.[3] The manuscript word list below has been reproduced from Grant's (1995) transcriptions.[2] (Note: Due to the poor printing in Grant (1995), the text below may not be entirely accurate and will need to be re-checked.)
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abGrant, 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.
ISBN978-0-19-509427-5
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN0-521-23228-7 (hbk);
ISBN0-521-29875-X.
It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby
Caddoan languages, but this now seems unlikely.[2]
Vocabulary
Adai is known only from a list of 275 words from 1804 by John Sibley.[3] The manuscript word list below has been reproduced from Grant's (1995) transcriptions.[2] (Note: Due to the poor printing in Grant (1995), the text below may not be entirely accurate and will need to be re-checked.)
^
abGrant, 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.
ISBN978-0-19-509427-5
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN0-521-23228-7 (hbk);
ISBN0-521-29875-X.