Fw: language

[willemdereuse at unt.edu]

Interesting article. Thank you Jimm. I hope David Rood comments as well.

Caution about the lists of Oklahoma languages at the end.  Concerning 
Chiricahua Apache, among others.  I have it from a reliable source that 
there are no fluent speakers of Chiricahua in Oklahoma. (There might 
well be more than 10 fluent speakers of Chiricahua on the Mescalero 
Reservation in New Mexico.)

Quoting Jimm GoodTracks <goodtracks at peoplepc.com>:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pat Benabe
> To: Jimm Goodtracks
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:56 AM
> Subject: language
>
>
> http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071126_1_A1_ahref1651
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> Tribal language fading away
>
> by: SE RUCKMAN, World Staff Writer
> 11/26/2007 1:37 AM
>
> Doris Jean Lamar is the last fluent speaker of the Wichita and Affiliated
> Tribes.
>
> (...)>
> *****
>
> Fluent, but for how long?
>
> Indian languages with fewer than five fluent speakers:
>
> Chirachua Apache
> Osage
> Otoe
> Ottawa
> Plains Apache
> Quapaw
> Wichita
>
> Indian languages with zero remaining fluent speakers:
>
> Alabama
> Cayuga
> Delaware (Lenape)
> Hitchiti, Mikasuki
> Kaw (Kansa)
> Kitsai
> Koasati
> Mesquakie (Fox)
> Miami, Peoria
> Modoc
> Natchez
> Seneca
> Tonkawa
> Wyandotte
>