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The Hopi language is a Native American language of the northern branch of the Uto-Aztecan languge family. Hopi is spoken by the Hopi people (although today many Hopi are monolingual English speakers), who live primarily in the northeastern part of the US state of Arizona, with smaller numbers in the states of Utah and New Mexico.
Although the Hopi people have generally been more successful than many other Native American peoples in keeping much of their traditional culutre alive, the use of the Hopi language declined over the course of the 20th century, and especially so after television finally arrived on the Hopi Indian Reservation in the late 1970s. In 1990, it was estimated that there were only about 40 monolingual living Hopi speakers, although over 5,000 other people (who were bilingual in English) could speak Hopi as well.
Yet despite the fact that relatively few people can speak Hopi, it is very unlikely that it will become an extinct language in the indefinite future, as some Hopi children are being raised speaking the langauge, a much-acclaimed Hopi-English dictionary has been published, and a group called the Hopi Literacy Project has focused its attention on reviving the Hopi language.
Ethnologue entry on the Hopi language
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