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Name:
Mohave
Alternate Names:
Mojave; Mohave (Arizona) (in French); Mohave (Californie) (in French); Mohave (California) (in Spanish); Amaquaqua; Jamajab
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
75 (1994 L. Hinton). 30 to 35 at Fort Mohave, 35 to 50 at Colorado River. Ethnic population: 767 (2000 A. Yamamoto); 204 (2000 US census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
200
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
75
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
mov
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Yuman-Cochimi (Cochimi-Yuman)
Parent Subgroup:
River Yuman; River; River Subgroup; Central Yuman (ryum)
Brief Description:
"Mohave (Mojave), a Yuman language of the River subgroup, is the heritage language of the Fort Mojave Tribe, near Needles, California, and of the Mohave members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, near Parker, Arizona. In the two communities combined there are fewer than 100 fluent first-language speakers, nearly all of them elderly, in a total Mohave population of over 2,000." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Mohave
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