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Name:
Lipan
Alternate Names:
Apache; Apache, Lipan; Eastern Apache
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
2 (1981 R. Young). Ethnic population: 100 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
2
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
apl
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian)
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Athabaskan; Apachean; Apachean Athabaskan (apac)
Brief Description:
"Lipan was an emergent language within the Southern Athabaskan dialect complex, spoken in the eighteenth century by several bands of Plains Apaches who lived in south-central Texas. During the nineteenth century the Lipan amalgamated with other Apache groups and today their descendants share the Mescalero Reservation in southeastern New Mexico with the Mescalero and the Chiricahua. There were two or three elderly speakers living as late as 1981, but the language is now extinct. It is very poorly documented." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Lipan
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