Old Mines, Missouri
... that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri, descendants of French colonists from the early 1700s?
... that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Native_speaker" id="mwGGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Native speaker">native speakers</a> of a unique <a href="./Missouri_French" id="mwGGU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Missouri French">French dialect</a> around <b id="mwGGY"><a href="./Old_Mines,_Missouri" id="mwGGc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Old Mines, Missouri">Old Mines, Missouri</a></b>, descendants of <a href="./French_colonization_of_the_Americas" id="mwGGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French colonization of the Americas">French colonists</a> from the early 1700s?