Topic summary
Western Apache language

The Western Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken among the 14,000 Western Apache in Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and in east-central Arizona. There are approximately 6,000 speakers living on the San Carlos Reservation and 7,000 living on the Fort Apache Reservation. In Mexico, they mainly live in Hermosillo, Sonora, and other native communities in Chihuahua.