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Name: Mescalero-Chiricahau Type: Language Alternate Names: Chiricahua; Mescalero; Chiricahua-Mescalero; Mescalero Cluster; Mescalero-Chiricahua; Apache (Chiricahua); Apache (Mescalero-Chiricahua); Apache; Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua; Eastern Apache Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 1,800 (1977 SIL), decreasing. 175 Chiricahua speakers, 149 in New Mexico (2000 US census). Ethnic population: 2,395 (2000) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 1503 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1800 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: apm 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) Child Dialects: Chiricahau; Chiricahua (apm-chi) Mescalero (apm-mes) Brief Description: "Mescalero-Chiricahua is an emergent language within the Southern Athabaskan dialect complex, spoken with very little dialectal variation by people whose tribal identity is either Mescalero or Chiricahua. Over 1,500 members - slightly under half - of the Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico are first-language speakers of Mescalero-Chiricahua, most of them Mescaleros, although perhaps a dozen identify as Chiricahuas. The principal Chiricahua community is at Ft. Sill, in southwestern Oklahoma, where they settled early in the twentieth century. At most three fluent speakers remain at Ft. Sill, together with a few semi-speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed