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Plains Apache language
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<p>The Plains Apache language is a <a href="/facts/Southern_Athabaskan_languages/EKMqjHB5">Southern Athabaskan language</a> formerly spoken by the <a href="/facts/Plains_Apache/j9sUh0Bw">Plains Apache</a>, organized as the <a href="/facts/Apache_Tribe_of_Oklahoma/j9sUh0Bw">Apache Tribe of Oklahoma</a>, living primarily around <a href="/facts/Anadarko%2c_Oklahoma/5z93hdGh">Anadarko</a> in southwest <a href="/facts/Oklahoma/fK28L1a4">Oklahoma</a>. The language is <a href="/facts/Extinct_language/ayaLa4DU">extinct</a> as of 2008, when Alfred Chalepah, Jr., the last native speaker, died. </p><p>Plains Apache is the most divergent member of the Southern Athabaskan languages, a family which also includes <a href="/facts/Navajo_language/Us0lrsYt">Navajo</a>, <a href="/facts/Chiricahua_language/MDstBPPs">Chiricahua Apache</a>, <a href="/facts/Mescalero_language/MDstBPPs">Mescalero Apache</a>, <a href="/facts/Lipan_Apache_language/zJAWbyb4">Lipan Apache</a>, <a href="/facts/Western_Apache_language/pTMp1JJY">Western Apache</a>, and <a href="/facts/Jicarilla_Apache_language/zk2HgzAr">Jicarilla Apache</a>. As a member of the broader Athabaskan family, it has an extremely complex system of verbal morphology, often enabling entire sentences to be constructed with only a verb. </p>