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Name: Kiowa Apache Type: Language Alternate Names: Oklahoma Apache; Plains Apache; Kiowa-Apache; Na'isha; Llanero; Na-isha; Apache, Kiowa Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 18 (1990 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 1,000 (1977 SIL) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 3 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 18 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: apk Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Southern Athabaskan; Apachean; Apachean Athabaskan (apac) Brief Description: "Kiowa Apache (Plains Apache) is a nearly-extinct Southern Athabaskan language, distinctly different from the rest of the Southern Athabaskan dialect complex. It is spoken in Caddo County, western Oklahoma, by the descendants of an Apache band that joined the Kiowas in the eighteenth century. Only three very elderly first-language speakers remain, together with a few semi-speakers, bu there are no second language speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered