Fox | |
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Meskwaki-Sauk-Kickapoo | |
Meshkwahkihaki | |
Native to | United States, Mexico |
Region | Central Oklahoma, Northeastern Kansas, Iowa, and Coahuila |
Ethnicity | 760 Meskwaki and Sauk and 820 Kickapoo in the US (2000 census)[1] and 423 Mexican Kickapoo (2010 census)[2] |
Native speakers | 700: 250 Sauk and Fox and 400 Kickapoo in the US (2007–2015)[1] 60 Kickapoo in Mexico (2020 census)[3] |
Algic
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Dialects | |
Latin, Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:sac – Fox and Saukkic – Kickapoo |
qes Mascouten | |
Glottolog | foxx1245 |
ELP | Sauk-Fox |
Map showing the distribution of Oklahoma Indian Languages | |
Kickapoo is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations in the Midwestern United States and in northern Mexico.