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North America
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

~1,000

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

The majority of speakers are over 50.

Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Altogether, there are around 1000 actively fluent speakers of Shoshoni, and perhaps another 1000 with more restricted competence. While a few children still learn Shoshoni as a first language in the Duck Valley and Gosiute communities, the majority of speakers are over 50.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming

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Location description

Central to northeastern Nevada; Idaho, Fort Hall Reservation. Northern Shoshoni in Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Goshute in west Utah.

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

Central to northeastern Nevada; Idaho, Fort Hall Reservation. Northern Shoshoni in Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Goshute in west Utah.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

6,000

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

USA

Coordinates

43.014,-108.8209

Location description

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Government support

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

43.0438,-112.4629; 40.0358,-113.9835; 43.014,-108.8209

Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,910

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

7,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from 2000 census; Data for the number of ethnic population comes from SIL 1977.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

USA;

Coordinates

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Location description

Central to northeastern Nevada; Idaho, Fort Hall Reservation. Northern Shoshoni in Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Goshute in west Utah.

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Central to northeastern Nevada; Idaho, Fort Hall Reservation. Northern Shoshoni in Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Goshute in west Utah.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

1000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

1000

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

7000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

1,000 (Golla 2007). Also 1,000 speakers who are not fluent (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 7,000 (1977 SIL).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

Countries

USA: Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Location and Context

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Institutional support

Shoshoni Language Project at University of Utah

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More on context

The Shoshone language is spoken and taught at the SYLAP (Shoshone Youth Language Apprenticeship Program) in Salt Lake City Utah. More information on SYLAP can be found at http://shoshoniproject.utah.edu/sylap/

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

43.4166666667,-108.833333333

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Government support

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,284

Domains of Use

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    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
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    "Shoshoni Language Project." Online: http://shoshoniproject.utah.edu.
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    Crum, Beverly and Jon Dayley. 1993. "Western Shoshoni Grammar." 1: Boise, Idaho: Department of Anthropology, Boise State University.
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    Gould, Drusilla and Christopher Loether. 2003. "Introduction To the Shoshoni Language: Dammen Daigwape." 272. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
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    Shimkin, D. B. 1949. "Shoshone." In Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, 15 , no. 3, 4: 175-188, 203-212.
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    Crapo, Richley H. 1976. "Big Smokey Valley Shoshoni." 10: Desert Research Institute.
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    Miller, Wick R. 1996. "Sketch of Shoshone, a Uto-Aztecan Language." In Handbook of American Indians. Volume 17: Languages, edited by Ives Goddard. 693-720. Smithsonian Institute.
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