Endangered Languages Project - Kickapoo

Kickapoo

^{[aka Kikapoo, Kikapú,]}

Classification: Algic

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kikapoo, Kikapú
CLASSIFICATION		Algic, Algonquian, Fox
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kic
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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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

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Partly mutually intelligible with Sauk-Fox but has been spoken since the earliest contact in the seventeenth century by a separate political group.
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.

PLACES: Mexico; USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Now on reservations in Kansas and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and in communities near McLoud,
Oklahoma, and Eagle Pass, Texas.

PLACES: Mexico; USA, Texas

PLACES: Mexico; USA, Texas

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
510
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
820?
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
US: 400 (Golla 2007), decreasing. Ethnic population: 820 (2000 census).
Mexico: 110 (2000 INALI).

DATE OF INFO: 2007 (US), 2000 (Mexico)

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: USA, Mexico

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: US: Kansas: Horton northeast; Oklahoma: Jones and McCloud; Texas: Nuevo Nacimiento.
Mexico: Coahuila state: Nacimiento de Kikapú, 40 km northeast of Muzquiz.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1120
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
820 in United States (2000 census), decreasing. 6 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 1120.

DATE OF INFO: 2000

PLACES: Mexico; USA, Texas

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northeast Kansas, Horton; central Oklahoma, McCloud and Jones; Texas, Nuevo Nacimiento.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,344
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Mexico; USA, Texas

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
839
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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39.6972,-95.7089; 35.4245,-97.0713; 28.6147,-100.4386

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28.6147,-100.4386

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Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO