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Name: Cocopa Alternate Names: Cocopá; Cocopah; Cucupá; Cucapá; Kwikapá; Kikimá; Delta River Yuman; Cocapa; Kikima Spoken in: Mexico, USA Number of speakers: 200 in Mexico (1998 P. Larson). Population total all countries: 350. Ethnic population: 200 in Mexico (1998) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 481 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 350 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: coc Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Yuman-Cochimi (Cochimi-Yuman) Parent Subgroup: Diegueño-Cocopa; Delta-Californian; California-Delta; Delta-California Subgroup; Delta-California (dcal) Child Dialects: Halyikwamai; Kikima; Halyikwami; Jalliquamay (coc-hal) Kahwan; Kohuana; Cajuenche (coc-kah) Brief Description: "Cocopa is a Yuman language, which together with Diegueño forms the Diegueño-Cocopa subgroup of the family. It was originally spoken by the people of the lowermost Colorado River and its delta. It is spoken today by between 150 and 300 of the approximately 700 members of he Cocopah Tribe, who have a reservation near Yuma, Arizona, and an equal or greater number of Mexican Cucapás in communities in Baja California and Sonora. In Arizona, most Cocopas over 50 are fluent, and a number of younger people are semi-speakers, including at least some children." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages

Endangerment Status

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