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Comanche Language: Uto-Aztecan languages, Comanche, Shoshone, Shoshone language, Colorado River Numic language, Code talker, Numic languages - Softcover
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Comanche is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people, who split off from the Shoshone soon after they acquired horses in around 1705. The Comanche language and the Shoshone language are therefore quite similar, although certain low-level consonant changes in Comanche have inhibited mutual intelligibility. The name Comanche" comes from the Ute word kɨmmantsi meaning "enemy, stranger". Their own name for the language is nʉmʉ tekwapʉ which means "language of the people". Although efforts are now being made to ensure its survival, most speakers of the language are elderly, and less than one percent of the Comanche people can speak the language. In the late 19th century, Comanche children were placed in boarding schools where they were discouraged from speaking their native language, and even severely punished for doing so. The second generation then grew up speaking English, because of the belief that it was better for them not to know Comanche. "
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