Talk:Wichita language

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I just read about this dying out language in a magazine. Now I'm a bit confused: In the magazine it says, there are 7 speakers, the table in the article here says 3 and the article itself 1. So, how many Wichita speakers are there???--Alexmagnus2 17:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a pretty arbitrary number. The 7 number I know for a fact is too large by now. I have worked with Dr. Rood, the expert on the language, and last I heard there was only 1 truly fluent speaker of the language, and without anybody to practice with even that level of fluency is debatable. The other 2-6 individuals, depending on what you read, can understand spoken Wichita and can produce broken Wichita. Most of these individuals were in their 70s and 80s last I heard and some of them have certainly passed away. Wichita is for all intents and purposes nearly extinct. 128.138.64.115 (talk) 22:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Status of Language
What is the status on the "Wichita Documentation Project" and the classes that they offered? I've gone through the links provided, a few are outdated, and the last update on the class site is for 2009.

Mr Languages (talk) 23:38, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm out of touch with folks doing the Wichita language classes through the tribe, but I'll ask around this coming week. In the meantime, you can reach David Rood at david.rood@colorado.edu. -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Contradiction
The opening paragraph of Wichita language says


 * Countable nouns can be marked for dual or plural; if not so marked, they are assumed to be singular. 

But earlier, Wichita language, paragraph 2, says


 * Nouns do not distinguish between singular and plural, as this information is specified as part of the verb.

These contradict each other. Loraof (talk) 20:54, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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Not extinct according to UNESCO Atlas
Thought I'd leave a note that the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages In Danger lists Wichita as critically endangered but not extinct as of 2010. I don't know enough to resolve the conflicting information (maybe it's a terminology issue?) but perhaps someone else can. Botterweg14 (talk)  20:55, 13 March 2023 (UTC)


 * It went extinct in 2016, so that makes sense. — kwami (talk) 22:01, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

ichirrise... example is contradictory
ichiris-ye:ckeʔe:kʔa
 * ,, and change to  after  or :

bird-ember

'redbird'In the phonological changes section after the consonants in section, in the Phonology supersection, theres this example. but it's contradictory since h should change to s after c, i.e. icsiriss... (icciriss... ?).

How can I add a "contradictory" note? Ill look into it later. Awelotta (talk) 01:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The article matches the source (Rood). I was considering that maybe it only occurs at morpheme boundaries but Rood doesn't say that. Awelotta (talk) 01:17, 1 January 2024 (UTC)