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Comanche

A language of United States

ISO 639-3: com

Population	200 (2000), decreasing. Ethnic population: 10,000 (2000).
Region	Western Oklahoma.
Language map	Southeastern United States of America
Dialects	Similar to Shoshoni [shh], Timbisha [par].
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Northern Uto-Aztecan, Numic, Central
Language use	Shifting to English. Mainly older adults (1998).
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1958.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Canonge, Elliott. 1957. "Voiceless vowels in Comanche."

Canonge, Elliott. 1958. Comanche texts.  

Davis, Irvine. 1995. Review of: a grammar of Comanche, by Jean Ormsbee Charney.

Robinson, Lila W. and James Armagost, editors. 1990. Comanche dictionary and grammar.  

Vernacular Publications

Comanche primer, vol. 3. 1948.