<div dir="ltr"><div>Phil:</div>
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<div>Chiricahua Apache & "Plains" Apache are Southern Athabaskan family languages, one of the branches of the Na-Dene which is one of the six or so world language categories. Just letting you know in case some students might get this wrong. </div>
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<div>Bernadette A. SantaMaria</div>
<div>White Mountain Apache<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:15 PM, phil cash cash <<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hey, did you know that there are 23 languages still spoken in Oklahoma? At<br>least 14 additional languages are longer spoken.<br>
<br>Language (Lang. Family), Max. No. of Speakers<br><br>Caddo (Caddoan), 20<br>Cherokee (Iroquoian), 9,000<br>Cheyenne (Algonkian), 400<br>Chickasaw (Muskogean), 600<br>Chiricahua Apache (Na-Dene), 1<br>Choctaw (Muskogean), 4,000<br>
Comanche (Uto-Aztecan), 100<br>Yuchi (Isolate), 7<br>Iowa (Siouan), 30<br>Kickapoo (Algonkian), 400<br>Kiowa (Tanoan), 400<br>Muskogee: Creek and Seminole (Muskogean), 6,000<br>Osage (Siouan), 1<br>Otoe (Siouan), 3<br>Ottawa (Algonkian), 3<br>
Pawnee (Caddoan), 7<br>Plains Apache (Na-Dene), 3<br>Ponca (Siouan), 33<br>Potawatomi (Algonkian), 20<br>Quapaw (Siouan), 1<br>Sauk (Algonkian), 7<br>Shawnee (Algonkian), 200<br>Wichita (Caddoan), 5<br><br>Source: Cultural Survival 2007, Vol. 31:2 (citing Wordpath 2006 est.). If you<br>
know speaker numbers and current conditions please let us know!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Phil Cash Cash<br>UofA<br></font></blockquote></div><br></div>