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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

Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan languages spoken in the southwest United States by the Navajo people . It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages ....
, Chiricahua Apache
Chiricahua language

Chiricahua is a Southern Athabaskan languages language spoken by the Chiricahua tribe in Oklahoma and New Mexico. It is very closely related to the Mescalero language and more distantly related to Navajo language and Western Apache language....
, Mescalero Apache
Mescalero

Mescalero is a Native Americans in the United States tribe of Southern Athabaskan languages heritage currently living on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southcentral New Mexico....
, Lipan Apache
Lipan Apache

Lipan Apache are Southern Athabascan languages people who are aboriginal to present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas prior to the 17th century....
, Plains Apache
Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a Southern Athabaskan group that lived primarily on the plains of North America along the Kiowa. Many currently live in Oklahoma and are enrolled in the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma....
, and Jicarilla Apache
Jicarilla Apache

Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan languages. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'....
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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:

  • Cibecue,
  • Northern Tonto,
  • Southern Tonto,
  • San Carlos
  • White Mountain


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

  • San Carlos,
  • White Mountain
  • Tonto
    Tonto Apache

    The Tonto Apache is a one of the groups of Western Apaches and also refers to one of the three dialects of the Western Apache language .Goodwin divided Tonto into two groups:...


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

Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan languages spoken in the southwest United States by the Navajo people . It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages ....
, Chiricahua Apache
Chiricahua language

Chiricahua is a Southern Athabaskan languages language spoken by the Chiricahua tribe in Oklahoma and New Mexico. It is very closely related to the Mescalero language and more distantly related to Navajo language and Western Apache language....
, Mescalero Apache
Mescalero

Mescalero is a Native Americans in the United States tribe of Southern Athabaskan languages heritage currently living on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southcentral New Mexico....
, Lipan Apache
Lipan Apache

Lipan Apache are Southern Athabascan languages people who are aboriginal to present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas prior to the 17th century....
, Plains Apache
Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a Southern Athabaskan group that lived primarily on the plains of North America along the Kiowa. Many currently live in Oklahoma and are enrolled in the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma....
, and Jicarilla Apache
Jicarilla Apache

Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan languages. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'....
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External links

  • (has children's video of Cactus Boy story in Western Apache)