Muskogean languages Muskogean languages Alabama is a Native American language, spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas. It was once spoken by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town of Oklahoma, but there are no more Alabama speakers in Oklahoma. It is a Muskogean language, and is believed to have been related to the Muklasa and Tuskegee languages, which are no longer extant. Alabama is closely related to Koasati and distantly to Hitchiti, Chickasaw and Choctaw. Also known as Alibamu. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Alabama language"
Apalachee (apparently a Choctaw name, = "people on the other side") were a Southeastern culture of Native Americans of Muskhogean stock that lived in Florida. They have been known since the 16th century, and formerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. The Apalachee spoke a now- extinct Muskogean language, documented by letters written in the Spanish Colonial period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apalachee"
The Chickasaw language is a Native American language of Muskogean stock. It is agglutinative and follows the pattern of Subject Object Verb. The language is closely related to, though perhaps not entirely mutually intelligible with, Choctaw. It is spoken by the Chickasaw tribe, now residing in Southeast Oklahoma, centered around Ada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chickasaw language"
The Choctaw language, traditionally spoken by the Native American Choctaw people of the southeastern United States, is a member of the Muskogean family. It is very closely related to Chickasaw and some linguists consider the two dialects of a single language, although recent reports indicate that speakers of Choctaw find Chickasaw to be unintelligible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Choctaw language"
The Creek language, also known as Muscogee (Maskoki in Creek), is a Muskogean language spoken by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma. ...more on Wikipedia about "Creek language"
Koasati (usually Coushatta) is a Native American language of Muskogean stock. The language is spoken by the Coushatta people, most of whom live in Allen Parish north of the town of Elton, Louisiana though a smaller number share a reservation near Livingston, Texas with the Alabama people. Linguist Geoffrey Kimball has estimated the number of speakers of the language to be around 400 people with approximately 350 speakers living in Louisiana (Kimball 1991). ...more on Wikipedia about "Koasati language"
The Mikasuki language (also Miccosukee or Hitchiti-Mikasuki) is a Muskogean language spoken by around 500 people in southern Florida. It is spoken by the Miccosukee tribe as well as many Seminoles. The now-extinct Hitchiti language was mutually intelligible with Mikasuki. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mikasuki language"
Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a language family of the U.S. Southeast. The Muskogean languages are generally divided into two rough branches, Eastern and Western, though these distinctions are the subject of some debate. They are agglutinative languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Muskogean languages"
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