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Chiricahua (also known as Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache) is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Chiricahua tribe in Oklahoma and New Mexico. It is very closely related to the Mescalero and more distantly related to Navajo and Western Apache. Chiricahua has been described in great detail by the anthropological linguist Harry Hoijer (1904-1976), especially in Hoijer & Opler (1938) and Hoijer (1946). Hoijer & Opler's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts (including a grammatical sketch and traditional religious and secular stories) has been converted into an online "book" available from the University of Virginia.
The 31 consonants of Chiricahua:
The 16 vowels of Chiricahua:
Chiricahua has phonemic oral, nasal, short, and long vowels...... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua Language Speakers
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