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Where is Caddo spoken?

Caddo is a Caddoan language, spoken in the United States. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Language families (largest ten)

Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Nuclear Trans New Guinea
Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
Pama-Nyungan

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Where Caddo is spoken

Caddo is spoken in one country: the United States.

Country
United States

On the map, Caddo is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Caddo.

How many people speak Caddo?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Nearly extinct. Glottolog lists it as nearly extinct: only a few elderly speakers are left.

Where Caddo sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Caddo as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

Caddoan
Caddo

More about Caddo

Codes: ISO 639-3 cad, Glottolog cadd1256. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Caddo

Where is Caddo spoken?

Caddo is spoken in the United States. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Caddo in?

Glottolog places Caddo in the Caddoan family.