Caddoan

[ kad-oh-uhn ]

noun

1. a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the upper Missouri valley in North Dakota, in the Platte valley in Nebraska, in southwestern Arkansas, and in neighboring parts of Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

Caddoan

/ ˈkædəʊən /

noun

1. a family of Native American languages, including Pawnee, formerly spoken in a wide area of the Midwest, and probably distantly related to Siouan

Word History and Origins

Origin of Caddoan¹

Caddo + -an

Example Sentences

They spoke a Caddoan language, one related to that of the Arikara, Pawnee and Wichita.

From Washington Times

The Caddoan works were discovered in 1980 along the Red River in Lafayette County while Army Corps of Engineers employees were working on a river containment project.

From Washington Times

The Caddoan family is less clearly defined than either of the preceding, but evidently consisted of many small tribes grouped, and forming confederacies.

From Project Gutenberg

The earth-covered house probably originated with the tribes of Caddoan stock, that is, the Pawnee and Arikara, and was adopted by the tribes of other stocks upon their migration into the Missouri River region.

From Project Gutenberg

The Caddoan peoples seem to have been on the southern plains from earliest times.

From Project Gutenberg