Editing Chickasaw language (section)

==Current status==
[[File:Chickasaw stop.jpg|thumb|left|Chickasaw language stop sign, with Chickasaw word {{lang|cic|Hika}} ("stop"), in [[Ada, Oklahoma]].]]
[[File:Chickasawlanguageaudiotour.jpg|thumb|left|Language offerings for audio tours at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, including Chickasaw, [[English language|English]], and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].]]
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Emily Johnson Dickerson, the last monolingual speaker of Chickasaw, died on December 30, 2013.<ref name="last">[http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/last-monolingual-language-chickasaw-speaker-dies-93/ "Last Monolingual Language Chickasaw Speaker Dies at 93"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822115405/http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/last-monolingual-language-chickasaw-speaker-dies-93/ |date=2014-08-22 }}, ''Native News Online''. Retrieved 4 Jan 2014.</ref> [[Ethnologue]] estimated in its seventeenth edition that Chickasaw retained up to 600 speakers, but noted that this figure was rapidly declining because most speakers are 50 and older.<ref name="ethnologue.com">{{cite news| url = https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cic/***EDITION***| title = Chickasaw {{!}} Ethnologue| newspaper = Ethnologue}}</ref> Children are no longer acquiring the language,<ref name="ethnologue.com"/> indicating Chickasaw has a notably low vitality. As of 2014, there were "four to five confident conversational speakers who are under the age of 35."<ref name = "russon">{{Cite news
| last = Russon
| first = Mary-Ann
| title = Chickasaw Nation: The Fight to Save a Dying Native American Language
| work = International Business Times
| access-date = 2014-05-20
| date = 2014-05-08
| url = http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chickasaw-nation-fight-save-dying-native-american-language-1447670
}}</ref> The Chickasaw language is not much used outside of the home. In terms of conservation and language vitality, Ethnologue evaluates the current language situation as [[moribund language|moribund]],<ref name="ethnologue.com"/>  and [[UNESCO]] lists Chickasaw as a "severely endangered" language, also noting that most of the ~50 speakers (as of 2019) are over fifty and almost all are bilingual in [[English language|English]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-iso-cic.html|title = UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger}}</ref>

=== Language revitalization ===
The Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program, founded in 2007, uses both [[Pamela Munro|Munro]]-Willmond and Humes alphabets. Because Chickasaw is a spoken language, "there is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to spell Chickasaw."<ref name="chickasawnation">{{Cite web
| title = Language
| work = The Official Site of the Chickasaw Nation
| access-date = 2012-09-29
| url = http://www.chickasaw.net/history_culture/index_644.htm
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120919184403/http://chickasaw.net/history_culture/index_644.htm
| archive-date = 2012-09-19
}}</ref> Chickasaw is taught through a master-apprentice program, community programs, and self-study programs.

A "Chickasaw Language Basic" app is available for [[iPhone]], [[iPad]], and other [[iOS]] devices.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chickasaw Language Basic App |url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chickasaw-language-basic/id448797486 |website=[[App Store (Apple)|App Store]] |date=4 June 2018 |publisher=Apple |access-date=October 26, 2023}}</ref>

In a collaboration with [[Apple, Inc.]], the Chickasaw language keyboard layout is available in [[iOS 16|iOS 16.4]], [[iPadOS 16|iPadOS 16.4]] and [[macOS Ventura|macOS Ventura 13.3]] and later to help users type with "special characters for pitch accent, nasal vowels and the glottal stop character."<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=May 17, 2023 |title=Chickasaw Nation language keyboard available on Apple devices |url=https://www.kxii.com/2023/05/17/chickasaw-nation-language-keyboard-available-apple-devices/ |work=[[KXII]] |location= |access-date=October 26, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What's new in the updates for macOS Ventura? |url=https://support.apple.com/HT213268 |website=Apple Support |at=macOS Ventura 13.3 |date=October 26, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

===Classes and programs===
The [[Chickasaw Nation]] has a department of Chickasaw Language with a 24-member Chickasaw Language Committee. In 2007, the tribe founded the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program. Four levels of Chickasaw language classes are taught at [[East Central University]] in [[Ada, Oklahoma]]. Joshua D. Hinson (called "Lokosh," meaning gourd, in the language), director of the Chickasaw Language Committee developed master-apprenticeship programs with guidance from linguist [[Leanne Hinton]].<ref name=lsa>[http://lsacelp.org/2012/05/09/chickasaws-are-on-the-move/ "Chickasaws Are On the Move."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716233556/http://lsacelp.org/2012/05/09/chickasaws-are-on-the-move/ |date=July 16, 2012 }} ''Linguistics Society of America Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation.'' Retrieved 9 April 2012.</ref><ref name = "russon" />

''Chipota Chikashshanompoli'' is a children's language program that meets monthly. Ada, Ardmore, Norman, Purcell, Sulphur, and Tishomingo all host non-academic adult language classes. The tribe also organizes immersion camps and publishes Chickasaw language literature through the Chickasaw Press.<ref name=lsa/>
More recently, the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program has been working with [[Rosetta Stone (company)|Rosetta Stone]] and [[Ackerman McQueen]], releasing a video series teaching learners how to speak Chickasaw with the [[Rosetta Stone (software)|Rosetta Stone Advanced Languages software]].