Arikara language
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Arikara 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.
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Arikara | |
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Sáhniš | |
Native to | United States |
Region | North-central North Dakota |
Ethnicity | 792 Arikara (2010 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2007)[2] |
Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ari |
Glottolog | arik1262 |
ELP | Arikara |
Linguasphere | 64-BAA-a |
Arikara language distribution | |
Arikara is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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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.[3]