Talk:Wichita language

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I just read about this dying out language in a magazine. Now I'm a bit confused: In the magazine it says, there are 7 speakers, the table in the article here says 3 and the article itself 1. So, how many Wichita speakers are there???--Alexmagnus2 17:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a pretty arbitrary number. The 7 number I know for a fact is too large by now. I have worked with Dr. Rood, the expert on the language, and last I heard there was only 1 truly fluent speaker of the language, and without anybody to practice with even that level of fluency is debatable. The other 2-6 individuals, depending on what you read, can understand spoken Wichita and can produce broken Wichita. Most of these individuals were in their 70s and 80s last I heard and some of them have certainly passed away. Wichita is for all intents and purposes nearly extinct. 128.138.64.115 (talk) 22:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)