Editing Wichita language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Native American language}}
{{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Wichita
| nativename       = {{lang|wic|Kirikirʔi:s}}|
| states           = [[United States]]
| region           = West-central [[Oklahoma]]
| ethnicity        = [[Wichita people|Wichita]], [[Tawakoni]]
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite news |last=Poolaw |first=Rhiannon |date=31 August 2016 |title=Last Wichita Speaker Passes Away |url=http://www.kswo.com/story/32940602/last-wichita-speaker-passes-away |access-date=1 September 2016 |work=ABC News 7 |publisher=KSWO}}</ref>
| familycolor      = American
| fam1             = [[Caddoan languages|Caddoan]]
| fam2             = Northern
| iso3             = wic
| lingua           = 64-BAC > 64-BAC-a
| map              = Oklahoma Indian Languages.png
| mapcaption       = Distribution of [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Native American languages]] in [[Oklahoma]]
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = wich1260
| glottorefname    = Wichita
| extinct          = August 30, 2016, with the death of [[Doris McLemore]]
| revived          = Classes available
}}

'''Wichita''' is a [[Caddoan languages|Caddoan]] language  spoken in Anadarko, [[Oklahoma]] by the [[Wichita and Affiliated Tribes]]. The last fluent heritage speaker, [[Doris Lamar-McLemore]], died in 2016,<ref name="NPR">{{Cite interview |last=McLemore |first=Doris |interviewer=Stewart, Alison |title=The Last Living Speaker of Wichita |url=https://www.npr.org/2008/01/30/18532656/the-last-living-speaker-of-wichita |work=The Bryant Park Project |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=2008-01-30}}</ref> although in 2007 there were three first-language speakers alive.<ref name="Rood, 2008, p. 395-405">{{harvnb|Rood|2008|pp=395–405}}</ref> This has rendered Wichita functionally [[extinct language|extinct]]; however, the tribe offers classes to revitalize the language<ref name="wt">[http://www.wichitatribe.com/language_class.htm Wichita Language Class.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702224745/http://www.wichitatribe.com/language_class.htm |date=2010-07-02 }} ''Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.'' 18 Feb 2009 (retrieved 14 Nov 2019)</ref> and works in partnership with the Wichita Documentation Project of the [[University of Colorado, Boulder]].<ref name="ucb">[http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/rood-old/Wichita/aboutproj.html "Wichita: About the Project."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116033539/http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/rood-old/Wichita/aboutproj.html |date=2011-11-16 }} ''Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder.'' (retrieved 17 July 2010)</ref>