public_comment: "An emergent language within the Southern Athabaskan dialect complex, spoken with very little dialectal variation by people whose tribal identity is either Mescalero or Chiricahua.",
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public_comment: ""175 Chiricahua speakers, 149 in New Mexico (2000 US census)." Data for the ethnic population was gathered in 2000. Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1977).",
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public_comment: "Over 1,500 members — slightly under half — of the Mescalero Tribe of New Mexico are first-language speakers of Mescalero-Chiricahua, most of them Mescaleros, although perhaps a dozen identify as Chiricahuas.",
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public_comment: "1500 (Golla 2007). 1,500 Mescalero in New Mexico, 3 Chiricahua in Oklahoma (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: >3000 Mescalero (Golla 2007). 175 Chiricahua, including 149 in New Mexico (2000 census).",