Wichita language

Wichita
Wichita
Kirikirʔi:s
Native to	United States
Region	West-central Oklahoma
Ethnicity	2,100 Wichita people (2007)
Extinct	30 August 2016; with the death of Doris McLemore.
Language family	Caddoan Northern Wichita; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wic
Glottolog	wich1260
ELP	Wichita
Linguasphere	64-BAC > 64-BAC-a
	Distribution of Native American languages in Oklahoma
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Wichita is an extinct Caddoan language once spoken in Oklahoma by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. The last fluent heritage speaker, Doris Lamar-McLemore, died in 2016,^[2] although in 2007 there were three first-language speakers alive.^[3] This has rendered Wichita functionally extinct; however, the tribe offers classes to revitalize the language^[4] and works in partnership with the Wichita Documentation Project of the University of Colorado, Boulder.^[5]

^ Poolaw, Rhiannon (August 31, 2016). "Last Wichita Speaker Passes Away". ABC News 7. KSWO. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
^ McLemore, Doris (January 30, 2008). "The Last Living Speaker of Wichita". The Bryant Park Project (Interview). Interviewed by Stewart, Alison. NPR.
^ Rood 2008, pp. 395–405
^ Wichita Language Class. Archived 2010-07-02 at the Wayback Machine Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. 18 Feb 2009 (retrieved 14 Nov 2019)
^ "Wichita: About the Project." Archived 2011-11-16 at the Wayback Machine Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (retrieved 17 July 2010)