Kickapoo

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A language of United States

ISO 639-3
kic
Alternate Names
Kikapoo
Autonym
Kikapú
User Population

400 in United States (Golla 2007), decreasing. 6 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 820 (2000 census). Total users in all countries: 463.

Location

Kansas: Horton northeast; Oklahoma: Jones and McCloud; Texas: Nuevo Nacimiento.

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Language Status

6b (Threatened). Language of registered tribe: Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.

Classification
Algic, Algonquian, Fox
Dialects

None known. Possibly intelligible with Meskwaki [sac].

Typology

Animate and inanimate nouns; polysynthetic language; tonal.

Language Use

In Oklahoma, some youth prefer English [eng]; in Kansas, most or all speakers are older adults (Golla 2007). Some young people, all adults. Most also use English [eng].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 45% in English [eng]. Grammar.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Kickapoo
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

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