Oklahoma

====Native American languages====

The two most commonly spoken native North American languages are [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] and [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]], with 10,000 Cherokee speakers living within the [[Cherokee Nation]] tribal jurisdiction area of eastern Oklahoma and another 10,000 Choctaw speakers living in the [[Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma|Choctaw Nation]] directly south of the Cherokees.<ref name="Cherokee">{{cite web|title=Cherokee|website=Ethnologue|access-date=April 11, 2014|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730231052/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-date=July 30, 2015}}</ref> Cherokee is an official language in the Cherokee Nation tribal jurisdiction area and in the [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]].<ref name="official" /><ref name="constitution" /><ref name="CARLA">{{cite web| title = The Cherokee Nation & its Language |website=University of Minnesota: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition |date =2008 |url= http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/immersion2008/documents/Peter_L_CherokeeNation.pdf |access-date=May 22, 2014}}</ref>

Twenty-five [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Native American languages]] are spoken in Oklahoma,<ref name="languages" /> second only to [[California]]. However, only Cherokee, if any, exhibits some language vitality at present. ''[[Ethnologue]]'' sees Cherokee as [[Endangered language|moribund]] because the only remaining active users of the language are members of the grandparent generation and older.