Endangered Languages Project - Lipan

Lipan

^{[aka Apache, Lipan, Eastern Apache, Lipan Apache]}

Classification: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

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ALSO KNOWN AS		Apache, Lipan, Eastern Apache, Lipan Apache
CLASSIFICATION		Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Athabaskan, Apachean
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		apl
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Golla et al. (2008): Lipan was an emergent language within the Southern Athabaskan dialect complex. There were 2 or three elderly speakers living as late as 1981, but the language is now dormant. It is very poorly documented.

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Information from: “The Lipan Apache Language: Recreating a Bilingual Environment for the Lipan” . Gohre, David

Awakening
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Lipan Apache was once a thriving and widespread language, and has now been reduced to the point of extermination. Given that this is the current situation, this page and the links therein are dedicated to the revitalization of the Lipan Apache Language."

Dormant
0
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There were 2 or three elderly speakers living as late as 1981, but the language is now extinct. It is very poorly documented.

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: New Mexico

Awakening
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"No known L1 speakers."

MORE ON VITALITY

"Revitalization meeting in Corpus Christi, Texas (2009). Mainly older adults."

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"Shifted to English [eng]."

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "New Mexico, Mescalero Reservation."

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: USA

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: New Mexico

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

33.1513,-105.799

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing