Arikara
Arikara is a Caddoan language spoken in United States, by about 10 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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Arikara, known natively as Sáhniš, is a Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Native Americans who reside primarily at Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Arikara is close to the Pawnee language, but they are not mutually intelligible.
The Arikara were apparently a group met by Lewis and Clark in 1804; their population of 30,000 was reduced to 6,000 by smallpox.
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Words in Arikara
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | sápat | |
| person | sahniS* | |
| name | hunaxan* | |
| eye | čiriikuʼ | |
| ear | hitkahan* | |
| nose | sinit* | |
| tooth | an* | |
| tongue | hat* | |
| hand | iS* | |
| blood | pat* | |
| bone | CiS* | |
| skin | sahniSskux* | |
| knee | pa7* | |
| breast | et* | |
| liver | karik* | |
| water | ts- | |
| fire | Ceka7* | |
| sun | Sakun* | |
| stone | kanitS* | |
| mountain | wa* | |
| tree | hak* | |
| leaf | sCekarak* | |
| night | nitkhan* | |
| dog | xatS* | |
| fish | CiwahtS* | |
| louse | pis* | |
| one | axku* | |
| two | pitkux* | |
| drink | Cika* | |
| see | erik* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · arik1262 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ari