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#REDIRECT[[|name=Plains Apache]]

|states=[[United States]]

|region=Primarily [[Oklahoma]]

|familycolor=American

|fam1=[[Na-Dene languages|Na-Dene]]

|fam2=[[Athabaskan languages|Athabaskan]]

|fam3=[[Southern Athabaskan languages|Southern]]

|fam4=Southwestern

|iso2=nai|iso3=}}

The '''Plains Apache''' language is a [[Southern Athabaskan languages|Southern Athabaskan language]] spoken by the [[Plains Apache]] peoples living primarily in central [[Oklahoma]].

Plains Apache is most closely related to other Southern Athabaskan languages like [[Navajo language|Navajo]], [[Chiricahua|Chiricahua Apache]], [[Mescalero|Mescalero Apache]], [[Lipan Apache]], [[Western Apache language|Western Apache]], and [[Jicarilla Apache]]. Plains Apache is the most divergent member of the subfamily. These speakers probably left their northern homeland later than the other Southern Athabaskan peoples. The language is extremely [[endangered language|endangered]] with perhaps only one native speaking elder.

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==External links==

* [http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elf/Axelrod.html Plains Apache Language Documentation]

==See also==

* [[Apache]]

* [[Southern Athabaskan languages]]

* [[Kiowa]]

==Bibliography==

* Bittle, William E. (n.d.). Plains Apache field notes. (Unpublished manuscript).

* Bittle, William E. (1956). ''The position of Kiowa-Apache in the Apachean group''. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles).

* Bittle, William E. (1963). Kiowa-Apache. In H. Hoijer (Ed.), ''Studies in Athabaskan languages'' (pp. 76-101). University of California publications in linguistics (No. 29). Berkeley: University of California Press.

[[Category:Endangered languages]]

[[Category:Indigenous languages of the North American Plains]]

[[Category:Languages of the United States]]

[[Category:Southern Athabaskan languages]]

[[Category:Western Apache|*]]