 Pre-contact distribution of the Atakapa language Atakapa is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby eastern Texas. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Pelican State Other U.S. States Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans, officially (currently Baton Rouge due to the evacuation of New Orleans) Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) Senators Mary Landrieu (D) David Vitter (R) Official languages None; English and French de facto Area...
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Image File history File links distribution of Atakapa language info created by w:User:Ish_ishwar in 2005 released under CC-by-2. ...
Image File history File links distribution of Atakapa language info created by w:User:Ish_ishwar in 2005 released under CC-by-2. ...
An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...
A language isolate is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other language. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Pelican State Other U.S. States Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans, officially (currently Baton Rouge due to the evacuation of New Orleans) Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) Senators Mary Landrieu (D) David Vitter (R) Official languages None; English and French de facto Area...
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Variation
There were three varieties of Atakapa (i.e. dialects): - Eastern
- Akokisa
- Western
The Eastern Atakapa dialect is known from a word list of 287 entries recorded in 1802. This dialect appears to be the most divergent of the three. These speakers lived around Attackapas Post (now Franklin, Louisiana). Franklin is a small city located in St. ...
The Akokisa dialect is known from a list of 45 words recorded in 1721. These speakers were captured around Galveston Bay. Galveston Bay is a large estuary located along Texass coastline. ...
The Western Atakapa dialect is the best known with recorded words, sentences, and texts from 1885, 1907, and 1908. The main language consultant was recorded in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The last speakers were Louison Huntington, Delilah Moss, Teet Verdine, and Armojean Reon. Downtown Lake Charles from a beach on the opposite side of Lake Charles (the lake) . A casino riverboat, Harrahs Pride of Lake Charles, appears to the left. ...
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See also Atakapa is the name of a group of small bands and the language of Native Americans that lived along the Gulf of Mexico. ...
Bibliography - Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
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