History of the Caddoan Languages

[@PerplexPrays]

it's always sad to see the languages start to die out incredibly fast near the end. great video as always!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@unanec]

Current situation: Caddo has today around 20 elder speakers which on top of that speak at least two different dialects, none of which are the mostly recorded one in writing. It's the caddoan language with the most native speakers which is good for documentation. Arikara has around 15 speakers, not all of them are elder as fortunately had a speaker that was a teacher of languages and fluent in Arikara. Pawnee has the best projection of them all. Counting speakers and students, it has 79 speakers even tho none of them are native and only around 10 are fluent. It has a lot of learning content and there is a school in this language. Wichita, shown here as extinct, it is not yet even tho at the verge. Last speaker died in 2016, today there are 4 people with basic conversation skills but no further knowledge on the language. Extinction is now unavoidable. Kitsai got extinct around the 30s

[@regabrielexv]

Thank you for your comment ❤️

[@lion3312]

Another great video man, i also really like your mapping style.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@jeandelepiechat]

3:53 'murica jumpscare 🦅🇺🇸

[@JG_Online1]

I almost added Caddo to the Piztiak project once, alas it didn't succeed, great video about a very unknown language

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@suhnih4076]

Arikara: oh ffs i just got here

[@sean668]

Very nice. Dhegihan languages next?

[@PLUTONIUM1228]

The disappearance of a language family is a great tragedy for humanity.

[@adnan_honest_jihadist5775]

imperialism & colonialism

[@bagaudas1400]

OTOMAN IMPERIALISM 😂😂​@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775

[@leonardo_fratila]

And as usual, langueges dissapear very fast in the end beacsue of indo-european, but this is time it was much quicker tho. And like evreytime, great video!❤💪👍💯

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@untitledjuan2849]

Please do one about the Chibchan languages

[@slyninja4444]

Up next: Iroquoian languages

[@etruscanetwork]

Hats down to Costas Melas for surviving for more than 3000 years just to post this video

[@Pellwolok]

It is a shame these very interesting languages almost disappeared. But your video is great! 😊

[@Ahmed_Reza_Mehrdad]

We only see some colours being wiped off the map, I can not possibly imagine the horrors these people went through. Let's make sure such atrocities don't happen again right in front of our eyes! #free_palestine ❤️🇵🇸 PS: as always thank you Costas Melas 🇮🇷❤️🇬🇷 for your valuable art :)

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@diegoragot655]

Hi, ¿would you like to do 2 or 3 or just 1 video about the history of Andorra and Aragon?

[@CostasMelas]

I think about the whole Iberian peninsula with the reconquista

[@MikeyPaper]

The eerie scary music is a real nail biter!

[@jpfmgames7531]

tupi-guarani pls

[@pas1994ok]

Great video as always, it's so sad how a lot of Native American language got extinct so fast, specially in lands colonized by English or French

[@bluemym1nd]

Nah, Wichita is probably persevered somewhere. Is it? 🥺

[@CostasMelas]

The last speaker died in 2016, but evidence of the language exists and a revival could be attempted

[@unanec]

There are 4 non-fluent speakers that only know the basics, wichita can only rely on the documentation we have for a revival but otherwise it is efectively extinct

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@Progressive2024]

Can you do the Middle East

[@elvenrights2428]

How do they know where proto Caddoan language was spoken in 2.000 BCE regarding that there is no written record?

[@CostasMelas]

The group is associated with cultures distinguished by archaeology. For example, the Caddoan group is associated with Caddoan Mississippian culture and other earlier cultures.

[@LeeTheGoat]

Hell yeah more american languages Will you do the same thing but one color per primary family so that we can compare?

[@qpdb840]

This language family is almost dead. That's sad, maybe one day the population of speakers can rise a bit more so it's not heavily in danger to be on its death bed.

[@Andre-zg6pl]

South American indigenous languages, please!!!!!!

[@jeandelepiechat]

yeah, it would be nice to see a video about Tupi-Guarani languages (i originally wrote about Quechuan languages but a video about them already exists lol)

[@JcDizon]

@@jeandelepiechatI think he did Quechuan already

[@jeandelepiechat]

​@@JcDizonhe really did, im a dumbass. gotta watch it now

[@japi2k9]

Come to think of it, much of Oklahoma and northeastern Texas could otherwise have been Caddoan-speaking.

[@lukasfencl5512]

what about to add estimated number of native speakers?

[@MjMaduell]

How do you make these videos?

[@CostasMelas]

I use mainly paintnet and blender

[@lucasjames7524]

It's sad, but with technology, globalization, and the metaphorical shrinking of the world in the modern age, the extinction of small languages or minority languages within whatever larger population they are found seems to tend towards the inevitable. It takes a concerted effort and ideally governmental promotion to keep such languages alive, and even then, it rests so much in the hands of the few who dedicate themselves to it. We're sort of going through a bottleneck of abundance, as it were.

[@micahistory]

nice video

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@micahistory]

@@CostasMelas you're welcome

[@Edarnon_Brodie]

Requesting for making history of Semitidic languages day 1

[@leonardo_fratila]

He already made the history of semitic langueges, but if you mean langueges that are related to it, he also made videos on nilo-saharan, chadic and other afra asiatic langeuges.

[@VictorStarchild]

Isso é sério 😮

[@martinomasolo8833]

Brilliant ending

[@kacperswierzewski3806]

Why?

[@regabrielexv]

It is a crime to kill such an ancient linguistic family. Colonialism really is the worst

[@anthonyn.7379]

Pawnee has 10 speakers left, Arikara 10, and Caddo only 2. This sucks (not the video, it was great)

[@unanec]

Caddo has around 20 and it is the only one with native speakers