View source for Native American languages of Wyoming

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[[Wyoming]], a state in the western [[United States]] that straddles the intersection of the [[Rocky Mountains]] and the [[Great Plains]], had been a part of the traditional geographic expanse of various Native American tribes: the [[Shoshone people|Shoshone]], the [[Arapaho people|Arapaho]], the [[Cheyenne Indians|Cheyenne]], and the [[Crow people|Crow]]. During the era of Westward Expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Crow were pushed north to [[Montana]], where there was already a significant population of their tribe, and the Cheyenne were split between Montana and [[Oklahoma]]. Only the Shoshone and Arapaho remained in Wyoming, with some of both sent to the [[Wind River Indian Reservation]], and others of both pushed to other western states and Oklahoma, respectively. As such, in total, there are two Native American languages currently spoken in Wyoming: [[Shoshone language|Shoshone]] and [[Arapaho language|Arapaho]].

==Distribution==
There are two Native American languages currently spoken in Utah. Population estimates are based on figures from Ethnologue and U.S. Census data, as given in sub-pages below. The two languages are shown in the table below:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Language !! Classification !! Number of Speakers !! Total Ethnic Population !! Tribe(s) Included !! Location(s) in Wyoming || Significant External Populations
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| [[Shoshone language|Shoshone]] || [[Uto-Aztecan languages|Uto-Aztecan]]: [[Numic languages|Numic]]: Central Numic || 2,000 || 12,300 || [[Eastern Shoshone]] || [[Wind River Indian Reservation]] || [[Idaho]], [[Utah]], [[Nevada]]
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| [[Arapaho language|Arapaho]] || [[Algic languages|Algic]]: [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]]: [[Plains Algonquian languages|Plains Algonquian]]: Arapahoan || 250 || 9,000 || [[Northern Arapaho]] || [[Wind River Indian Reservation]] || [[Oklahoma]]
|}

==See also==
* [[Native Americans in the United States]]
* [[Plains Indians]]
* [[Indigenous languages of the Americas]]
* [[Uto-Aztecan languages]]
* [[Algonquian languages]]

[[Category:Native American history of Wyoming]]
[[Category:Indigenous languages of the United States by state|Wyoming]]