Wichita language - Sounds

Wichita is a moribund Caddoan language spoken in Oklahoma. Fewer than a dozen fluent speakers remain, and the language is spoken very rarely, even among those who can still hold conversations in Wichita. Wichita will probably become extinct sometime in the future. Wichita language - Sounds. Wichita has been claimed to be unusually asymmetrical at a phonemic level, though this is less apparent at a phonetic level. Wichita language - Consonants. Wichita has 10 consonants. I ...

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• Wichita language - Sounds
• Wichita language - Consonants
• Wichita language - Vowels
• Wichita language - Tone
• Wichita language - Syllable and phonotactics
• Wichita language - Grammar
• Wichita language - External link
• Wichita language - Bibliography

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Wichita has been claimed to be unusually asymmetrical at a phonemic level, though this is less apparent at a phonetic level. Wichita language - Consonants. Wichita has 10 consonants. In the Americanist orthography generally used when describing Wichita, [ts] is spelled <c>, and [j] <y>. Labials are generally absent, occurring in only two roots: kammac to grind corn and camma:ci to hoe, to cultivate. Nasals are allophonic. The allophones r and n are in complementary distribution, and the bilabial nasal m occurs in ...

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Wichita language, Wichita language - Sounds, Wichita language - Consonants, Wichita language - Vowels, Wichita language - Tone, Wichita language - Syllable and phonotactics, Wichita language - Grammar, Wichita language - External link, Wichita language - Bibliography

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It is agglutinative, but surface forms often differ to actual morphemic shapes due to the usage of a series of unusual phonological processes at morpheme boundaries. Wichita utterances can include single words that would require a full sentence in English: kiyaːkíriwaːcʔárasarikitaʔahíːriks 'he brought the big quantity of meat up to the top by means of many trips'. ...

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Wichita language, Wichita language - Sounds, Wichita language - Consonants, Wichita language - Vowels, Wichita language - Tone, Wichita language - Syllable and phonotactics, Wichita language - Grammar, Wichita language - External link, Wichita language - Bibliography

Read more here: » Wichita language: Encyclopedia II - Wichita language - Grammar