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Name: Hopi Alternate Names: Tusayan; Moki; Moqui; Pueblo Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 5,260 (2000 census), decreasing. 40 monolinguals (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 5000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 5264 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: hop Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Uto-Aztecan (Yuta-Nawan) Parent Subgroup: Hopi; Pueblo; Pueblo Shoshonean Subfamily (hopi) Child Dialects: Second Mesa; Mishongnovi; Toreva (hop-mis) Third Mesa; Oraibi (hop-thi) First Mesa; Polacca (hop-fir) Brief Description: "Hopi is the traditional language of Hopi Pueblo and constitutes an independent branch of the Uto-Aztecan family. At least 5,000 of the approximately 7,350 members of the tribe are fluent speakers, including many children. Four dialects are usually distinguished: (1) the First Mesa villages of Walpi and Sichomovi (the language of a third First Mesa village, Hano, is Tewa) and the town of Polacca; (2) the Second Mesa village of Shipaulovi; (3) the Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi (also called Toreva); and (4) the Third Mesa villages of Oraibi, Hotevilla, Bacabi, and New Oraibi, as well as the settlement of Moencopi 40 miles to the west." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 15

Endangerment Status

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