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|pronunciation= |states=United States |region=Oklahoma (formerly, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma) |ethnicity=Comanche people |speakers=100 |speakers2= |date=2007 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Uto-Aztecan |fam1=Uto-Aztecan |fam2=Numic |fam3=Central Numic |iso3=com |glotto=coma1245 |glottorefname=Comanche |map=Comanche lang.png |mapcaption=Distribution of the Comanche language. |notice=IPA }} Comanche is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people, who split off from the Shoshone soon after they acquired horses around 1705. The Comanche language and the Shoshoni language are therefore quite similar, although certain consonant changes in Comanche have inhibited mutual intelligibility. The name "Comanche" comes from the Ute word ' meaning "enemy, stranger".〔Edward Sapir. 1931. ''Southern Paiute Dictionary''. Reprinted in 1992 in: ''The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, X, Southern Paiute and Ute Linguistics and Ethnography''. Ed. William Bright. Berlin: Mouton deGruyter.〕 Their own name for the language is ' which means "language of the people".〔Lila Wistrand Robinson & James Armagost. 1990. ''Comanche Dictionary and Grammar''. Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics Publication 92. Dallas, Texas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington.〕 == Use and revitalization efforts == Although efforts are now being made to ensure its survival, most speakers of the language are elderly. In the late 19th century, Comanche children were placed in boarding schools where they were discouraged from speaking their native language, and even severely punished for doing so. The second generation then grew up speaking English, because of the belief that it was better for them not to know Comanche. The Comanche language was briefly prominent during World War II. A group of seventeen young men referred to as the Comanche Code Talkers were trained and used by the U.S. Army to send messages conveying sensitive information in the Comanche language so that it could not be deciphered by the enemy. As of July 2013, there are roughly 25-30 native speakers of the language, according to ''The Boston Globe''.〔 An online class is available from the Learn Comanche organization, and the Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee offers dictionaries and language learning materials. Comanche language courses are also available at the Comanche Nation College. The college is conducting a language recording project, as the language is "mostly oral," and emphasizing instruction for tribal members. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comanche language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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