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Name: Sauk-Fox Type: Language Alternate Names: Fox; Mesquakie; Meskwakie; Sac and Fox; Meskwaki; Fox-Sauk-Kickapoo; Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo; Fox-Sauk Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 250 (2001 I. Goddard). A handful of Sauk speakers (2000 I. Goddard). Ethnic population: 758 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 200 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 250 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: sac Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo; Saux-Fox-Kickapoo (iaam) Brief Description: "Sauk-Fox (Meskwaki) is a Central Algonquian language, spoken by about 200 members of the Meskwaki Tribe in Iowa. It was the heritage language also of the historically separate Sauk tribe, whose descendants today are the Sac and Fox Tribe of central Oklahoma and the Nemaha Sauks on the Kansas-Nebraska border. The Meskwaki variety is also called 'Fox'; it differs from Sauk in minor details of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, but the variation within Meskwaki alone is almost as great. Kickapoo was originally part of the same dialect complex, but for historical and social reasons it is treated as a separate language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22

Endangerment Status

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