Mescalero-Chiricahua language
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Mescalero-Chiricahua (also known as Chiricahua Apache) is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Chiricahua and Mescalero people in Chihuahua and Sonora, México and in Oklahoma and New Mexico.[2] It is related to Navajo and Western Apache and has been described in great detail by the anthropological linguist Harry Hoijer (1904–1976), especially in Hoijer & Opler (1938) and Hoijer (1946). Hoijer & Opler's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts, including a grammatical sketch and traditional religious and secular stories, has been converted into an online "book" available from the University of Virginia.
Chiricahua | |
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Ndee bizaa | |
Native to | Mexico and USA |
Region | Sonora, Chihuahua, Oklahoma, New Mexico |
Ethnicity | Chiricahua, Mescalero |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2007)[1] |
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Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Regulated by | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | apm |
Glottolog | mesc1238 |
ELP | Mescalero-Chiricahua |
Mescalero-Chiricahua is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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Virginia Klinekole, the first female president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was known for her efforts to preserve the language.[3]
There is at least one language-immersion school for children in Mescalero.[4]