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Name: Maricopa Alternate Names: Maricopa (in French); Maricopa (in Spanish); Cocomaricopa Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 160 (2000 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 400 (1997 SIL) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 100 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 181 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: mrc Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Yuman-Cochimi (Cochimi-Yuman) Parent Subgroup: River Yuman; River; River Subgroup; Central Yuman (ryum) Child Dialect Group: Maricopa (mrc-mar) Child Dialects: Kavelchadom (mrc-kav) Halchidhoma; Halchidom; Halchidoma; Jalchedom (mrc-hal) Brief Description: "Maricopa is a Yuman language of the River subgroup, originally spoken by several small tribes along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers. It is now spoken by a minority - perhaps as few as 100 - of the approximately 800 members of the Maricopa (or Pee-Posh) tribe of Arizona, most of whom live at the Maricopa Colony at Laveen, on the Gila River Reservation south of Phoenix, and in the community of Lehi on the Salt River Reservation northeast of Phoenix." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered