Hopi
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Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of Arizona
Key facts
- Native to
- United States
- Region
- Northeastern Arizona
- Ethnicity
- 7,400 Hopis (Golla 2007)
- Native speakers
- 6,100 (2015 census) , 40 monolinguals
- Language family
- Uto-Aztecan Northern Uto-Aztecan Hopi
- Dialects
- First Mesa / Polacca Mishongnovi / Toreva Shipaulovi / Sipaulovi Third Mesa / Oraibi
- Writing system
- Latin script
- Iso 639 3
- hop
- Glottolog
- hopi1249
- Elp
- Hopi
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Encyclopedic overview
Hopi (Hopi: Hopílavayi) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people (a Puebloan group) of northeastern Arizona, United States.
The use of Hopi has gradually declined over the course of the 20th century. In 1990, it was estimated that more than 5,000 people could speak Hopi as a native language (approximately 75% of the population), but only 40 of them were monolingual in Hopi. The 1998 language survey of 200 Hopi people showed that 100% of Hopi elders (60 years or older) were fluent, but fluency in adults (40–59) was only 84%, 50% in young adults (20–39), and 5% in children (2–19).
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