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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A family of North American Indian languages spoken formerly in the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana and presently in North Dakota and Oklahoma.
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- adjective Pertaining to the
Caddo .
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- noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo
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Examples
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
Pimento cheese, comfort served | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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Hokan, Macro-Siouan (including Caddoan and Iroquoian) and Gulf (which hypothetically includes Muskogean together with various other Southeastern languages) are listed as "stocks", in the sense of hypothetical related groups above the level of the family.
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A thousand years later, Caddoan potters in Oklahoma produced jars with abstract markings in the glaze known as "fire clouds," the result of exposure to irregular firing.
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Between Soto's and La Salle's visits, Perttula believes, the Caddoan population fell from about 200,000 to about 8,500 — a drop of nearly 96 percent.
1491 2002
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The Coosa city-states, in western Georgia, and the Caddoan-speaking civilization, centered on the Texas-Arkansas border, disintegrated soon after Soto appeared.
1491 2002
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Between Soto's and La Salle's visits, Perttula believes, the Caddoan population fell from about 200,000 to about 8,500 — a drop of nearly 96 percent.
1491 2002
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The Coosa city-states, in western Georgia, and the Caddoan-speaking civilization, centered on the Texas-Arkansas border, disintegrated soon after Soto appeared.
1491 2002
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The Caddoan tribes were mostly agricultural and sedentary, and to-day they are distinguished by their industry and intelligence.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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CADDO, a confederacy of North American Indian tribes which gave its name to the Caddoan stock, represented in the south by the Caddos, Wichita and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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