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"Today, about a dozen generations after its prime, the language endures only through a handful of native speakers - as few as 25 out of the Comanche Nation's approximately 15,000 registered members - but they are dying off and taking the legacy with them.
'It's definitely going extinct in the sense that what we're losing is intergenerational transmission of the language," Williams said. "In other words, kids aren't learning it.'" http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121809/loc_536884399.shtml (2009).",
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