Kickapoo
[alias Kikapoo, Kikapú,]Klassifizierung: Algic
·bedroht
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Bedroht
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~1,100
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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.
- ORTE
- Mexico; USA
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
Now on reservations in Kansas and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and in communities near McLoud,
Oklahoma, and Eagle Pass, Texas.