Kirikirʔis

Wichita

Caddoan (Northern Caddoan)

SprachfamilieCaddoan (Northern Caddoan) Sprecher~3 L1 (critically endangered; last fluent speaker Doris McLemore d. 2016, sleeping/dormant) SchriftLatin (linguistic orthography with ʔ and ː) LänderUnited States (Oklahoma) Amtssprache inNo (tribal heritage language of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) ISO 639-3wic Glottocodewich1260

Wichita is a Northern Caddoan language of Oklahoma famous for lacking a bilabial stop /p/ entirely — a typologically extreme rarity worldwide. Its polysynthetic verbs can express whole sentences in a single word, and a glottal stop ʔ and long vowels are phonemically contrastive.

Wo es gesprochen wird

20 Kernwörter in Wichita

Wasser

kicʔa

/kit͡sʔa/

Feuer

hatʔihks

/hatʔihks/

Sonne

saːkihirikiʔis

/saːkihiɾikiʔis/

Mond

/—/

Mutter

ʔatsi

/ʔatsi/

Vater

ʔaːsi

/ʔaːsi/

Essen

taʔac

/taʔat͡s/

Trinken

kiːckiriʔeːhirʔa

/kiːt͡skiɾiʔeːhiɾʔa/

Liebe

/—/

Herz

kaːc

/kaːt͡s/

Baum

tahaːriʔ

/tahaːɾiʔ/

Haus

kaːhikʔa

/kaːhikʔa/

Hund

kicʔariːh

/kit͡sʔaɾiːh/

Katze

/—/

Hand

ʔiskʔa

/ʔiskʔa/

Auge

kiriːkihinaʔ

/kiɾiːkihinaʔ/

Hallo

nakahaʔahirʔa

/nakahaʔahiɾʔa/

Danke

/—/

Eins

cʔiːʔas

/t͡sʔiːʔas/

Gut

/—/

Quellen

Wörter im Vergleich

Verglichen mit verwandten Caddoan (Northern Caddoan)-Sprachen

Bedeutung WichitaFaliskischTuyucaOskischNekoMessapischVenetisch
Wasser kicʔa /kit͡sʔa/ /—/ oko /oko/ /—/ wai /wai/ /—/ ouriom /ˈou.ri.om/
Feuer hatʔihks /hatʔihks/ /—/ pekãbẽ /pekãbẽ/ /—/ titɛ /titɛ/ /—/ /—/
Sonne saːkihirikiʔis /saːkihiɾikiʔis/ /—/ /—/ /—/ aatʌ /aːtʌ/ /—/ /—/
Mond /—/ /—/ /—/ /—/ /—/ /—/ /—/
Mutter ʔatsi /ʔatsi/ /—/ pakó /pakó/ maatúf /maːtof/ /—/ /—/ matur /ˈma.tur/
Vater ʔaːsi /ʔaːsi/ pater /ˈpa.ter/ /—/ patír /patiːr/ /—/ ana /ˈana/ /—/
Essen taʔac /taʔat͡s/ /—/ /—/ /—/ nei /nei/ /—/ /—/
Trinken kiːckiriʔeːhirʔa /kiːt͡skiɾiʔeːhiɾʔa/ pipafo /ˈpi.pa.foː/ sĩdĩ /sĩdĩ/ /—/ /—/ /—/ /—/
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