Western Apache language

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Western Apache language

The Western Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by over 12,000 of the Western Apache

Western Apache

Western Apache refers to the similar Apache peoples living primarily in east central Arizona. Goodwin claims that the Western Apache can be divided into five groups based on dialect:...
peoples living primarily in east central Arizona

Arizona

The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
. Goodwin (1938) claims that Western Apache can be divided into five dialect groupings:

Other researchers do not find any linguistic evidence for five groups, but rather three main varieties with several subgroupings:

Western Apache is most closely related to other Southern Athabaskan languages like Navajo

Navajo language

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