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Gary Reddin

  • Script Editor, CrashCourse
Oklahoma
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One of the last remaining Comanche speakers shares her story

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By Gary Reddin
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Patricia Yackeschi is one of the last remaining fluent Comanche speakers. Growing up in Cyril with her mother and twin sister, Comanche was the first language she was taught and the first language she spoke. Eventually she learned English along with her mother and sister, but the bilingual family spoke mostly Comanche to each other. “We didn’t really go anywhere. We were little girls at home with our mother. We mostly stayed home in those days,” Yackeschi said. “We didn’t have a wagon.
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Tribal department hopes to save Comanche language

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By Gary Reddin
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The Comanche Language Department is working tirelessly to ensure that the Comanche language does not meet the same fate as other indigenous languages around the world. Considered severely endangered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Comanche Language has fewer than 10 remaining fluent, first-language speakers.
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Comanche language ‘critically endangered’

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By Gary Reddin
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The Comanche language is in trouble. There are fewer than nine fluent, first language Comanche speakers left. Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner, director of the Comanche Nation’s language department, attributes this to age, health and the effects of COVID-19. “So, we define these people as anyone whose first language was Comanche, people who can carry on a fluent conversation in Comanche without resorting to English,” Briner said.
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