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North America
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~1,100

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Partly mutually intelligible with Sauk-Fox but has been spoken since the earliest contact in the seventeenth century by a separate political group. There are estimated to be around 1,100 first-language speakers of Kickapoo, about 700 of them in Mexico, 400 in Oklahoma, and only a few in Kansas.

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2008

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Mexico; USA

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Now on reservations in Kansas and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and in communities near McLoud, Oklahoma, and Eagle Pass, Texas.

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Now on reservations in Kansas and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and in communities near McLoud, Oklahoma, and Eagle Pass, Texas.

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1,344

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2010

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Mexico; USA, Texas

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28.6147,-100.4386

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2010

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Mexico; USA, Texas

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39.6972,-95.7089; 35.4245,-97.0713; 28.6147,-100.4386

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1120

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820 in United States (2000 census), decreasing. 6 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 1120.

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2009

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Mexico; USA, Texas

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Northeast Kansas, Horton; central Oklahoma, McCloud and Jones; Texas, Nuevo Nacimiento.

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Northeast Kansas, Horton; central Oklahoma, McCloud and Jones; Texas, Nuevo Nacimiento.

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820?

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US: 400 (Golla 2007), decreasing. Ethnic population: 820 (2000 census). Mexico: 110 (2000 INALI).

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2016

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USA, Mexico

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English, Spanish

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2005

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Mexico; USA, Texas

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42.25,-84.0

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