Plains Apache | |
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Kiowa Apache | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Caddo County, Oklahoma |
Ethnicity | Plains Apache |
Extinct | 2008, with the death of Alfred Chalepah Jr. |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | apk |
Glottolog | kiow1264 |
ELP | Kiowa Apache |
![]() Historical distribution of Southern Athabaskan languages. Plains Apache (labeled Kiowa Apache) is located in northwestern Oklahoma. | |
The Plains Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language formerly spoken by the Plains Apache, organized as the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, living primarily around Anadarko in southwest Oklahoma.[1] The language is extinct as of 2008, when Alfred Chalepah, Jr., the last native speaker, died.[2]
Plains Apache is the most divergent member of the Southern Athabaskan languages, a family which also includes Navajo, Chiricahua Apache, Mescalero Apache, Lipan Apache, Western Apache, and Jicarilla Apache. As a member of the broader Athabaskan family, it has an extremely complex system of verbal morphology, often enabling entire sentences to be constructed with only a verb.
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