Kickapoo language

Kickapoo
Metotheeneniaatoweeheni
Native toUnited States, Mexico
EthnicityKickapoo people
Native speakers
1,043 Kickapoo in the US (2017–2021)
60 Kickapoo in Mexico (2020 census)
Dialects
  • monolingual dialect (Peekaatowaakani)
  • Oklahoma dialect
  • Mexican/Texan dialect
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3kic
Glottologkick1244
ELPKickapoo
Kickapoo people building a winter house in the town of Nacimiento Coahuila, Mexico, 2008

Kickapoo (endonym: Metotheeneniaatoweeheni) is either a dialect of the Fox language or a closely related language, closely related to, and mutually intelligible with, the dialects spoken by the Sauk people and Meskwaki people. Their language is included in the Central Algonquian languages subgroup of the Algonquian languages family, itself a member of the Algic language family.