Mescalero-Chiricahua
[aka Chiricahua, Mescalero, Chiricahua-Mescalero]Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·threatened
Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit
·threatened
Chiricahua, Mescalero, Chiricahua-Mescalero, Mescalero Cluster, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Apache (Chiricahua), Apache (Mescalero-Chiricahua), Apache, Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Eastern Apache |
||
Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Athabaskan, Apachean |
||
ISO 639-3 |
||
apm |
||
As csv |
||
Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
2,800?
Over 1,500 members — slightly under half — of the Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico are first-language speakers of Mescalero-Chiricahua, most of them Mescaleros, although perhaps a dozen identify as Chiricahuas.
Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico. The principal Chiricahua community is at Ft. Sill, in southwestern Oklahoma, where they settled early in the 20th century.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
2,395
"175 Chiricahua speakers, 149 in New Mexico (2000 US census)." Data for the ethnic population was gathered in 2000. Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1977).
The number of speakers is decreasing.
New Mexico, Mescalero Reservation; some Chiricahua at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
1500 (Golla 2007). 1,500 Mescalero in New Mexico, 3 Chiricahua in Oklahoma (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: >3000 Mescalero (Golla 2007). 175 Chiricahua, including 149 in New Mexico (2000 census).
A few Chiricahua semispeakers in Oklahoma. Mainly older adults.
English
New Mexico: Mescalero Reservation.
Oklahoma: some Chiricahua at Fort Sill.