Kickapoo | Ethnologue

A language of United States

ISO 639: kic
Alternate Names: Kikapoo
Autonym: Kikapú
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.
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].

Mexico

Location: Coahuila de Zaragoza state: Nacimiento de Kikapú, 40 km northeast of Muzquiz.
Language Status: 6b (Threatened)
Other Comments: Most spend part of the year working in the United States.

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