31863 Shanenawa 10-99 800 The 23 possibly are semi-speakers.

Pilar Valenzuela (personal communication) reports that Glaucia Candido (a linguist who worked with the Shanenawas) asked a Shanenawa friend the question, and he reports that today there are only 23 fluent speakers, from a population of 800 Shanenawas. Adults (including Candido's friend who is reporting this) speak the language but not with fluency and the children understdand but do not speak it. Personal communication about Shanenawa On 23 10-99