Key facts
- Native to
- United States
- Region
- From Southeastern Oklahoma , to east-central Mississippi and into Louisiana and Tennessee
- Ethnicity
- 20,000 Choctaw (2007)
- Native speakers
- 9,600 (2015 census)
- Language family
- Muskogean Western Choctaw
- Official language in
- Choctaw Nation
- Iso 639 2
- cho
- Iso 639 3
- cho
- Glottolog
- choc1276
- Elp
- Choctaw
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: Chahta), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean language family. Chickasaw is a separate but closely related language to Choctaw.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma published the New Choctaw dictionary in 2016.
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Agglutinative languagesChoctaw cultureCulture of MississippiIndigenous languages of OklahomaIndigenous languages of the North American SoutheastLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 21Languages of LouisianaLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeMuskogean languagesNative American language revitalizationSubject–object–verb languages