Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Southeastern North America
- Linguistic classification
- One of the world's primary language families
- Early form
- Proto-Muskogean
- Subdivisions
- Choctaw – Chickasaw Alabama – Koasati Hitchiti–Mikasuki Muscogee Apalachee † Houma †
- Glottolog
- musk1252
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Encyclopedic overview
Muskogean (/məˈskoʊɡiən/ mə-SKOH-ghee-ən; also Muskhogean) is a language family spoken in the Southeastern United States. The state with the largest population of speakers today is Oklahoma. Members of the family are Indigenous languages of the Americas. Typologically, Muskogean languages are highly synthetic and agglutinative. One documented language, Apalachee, is no longer spoken, and the remaining languages are critically endangered.
Genetic relationships
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muskogean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.