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Name: Western Panamint Type: Language Alternate Name: Comanche Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 200 (2000), decreasing. Ethnic population: 10,000 (2000) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 100 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 200 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: com Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Uto-Aztecan (Yuta-Nawan) Parent Subgroup: Numic; Central Numic; Shoshonish Group (cnum) Brief Description: "Comanche is a Central Numic language, formerly spoken in the southern Plains from Kansas and Colorado to the Rio Grande. Before the eighteenth century the ancestors of the Comanches were Shoshoni speakers in what is now Wyoming, but the Comache dialect became quite distinct after the groups separated, and they are now mutually intelligible only with difficulty. In the late nineteenth century the Comanches were placed on reservation lands in southwestern Oklahoma, north of Lawton, where the tribe maintains a current membership of about 8,500. No more than 100 are speakers of Comanche, all older than 50." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13

Endangerment Status

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