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Name: Kickapoo Alternate Names: Kikapoo; Kikapú Spoken in: Mexico, USA Number of speakers: 820 in United States (2000 census), decreasing. 6 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 1,120 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 1344 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 839 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: kic Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo; Saux-Fox-Kickapoo (iaam) Brief Description: "Kickapoo is an Algonquian language that is partly mutually intelligible with Sauk-Fox but has been spoken since the earliest contact in the seventeenth century by a separate political group. The Kickapoos are first known to have been in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio, and after the mid-seventeenth century they were in Wisconsin and later Indiana. They are now on reservations in Kansas and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and in communities near McLoud, Oklahoma, and Eagle Pass, Texas. There are estimated to be around 1,100 first-language speakers of Kickapoo, about 700 of them in Mexico, 400 in Oklahoma, and only a few in Kansas." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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