Muscogee language

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The Muscogee language is a Native American Muskogean language traditionally spoken by the Muscogee (Creek) people of the southeastern United States.

All labels observed (6)

How this entity was disambiguated

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instanceOf Muskogean language
Native American language
indigenous language of the United States
basicWordOrder subject–object–verb
closelyRelatedTo Alabama language
Koasati language
Seminole language
linked to: Miccosukee language
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
hasAlternativeName Creek language
Mvskoke
Mvskoke language
linked to: Muscogee language
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Muscogee (Creek) people
Seminole people
linked to: Seminole
hasDialects Hitchiti
linked to: Hitchiti language

Mikasuki
hasEthnologueEntry Muscogee
hasGrammaticalFeature noun incorporation in verbs
polysynthetic verb morphology
prefixes and suffixes on verbs
hasLoanwordsFrom English language
linked to: English

Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal vowels
tone or pitch accent-like features
iso639-2Code mus
iso639-3Code mus
languageFamily Muskogean languages
regulatingBody Muscogee (Creek) Nation language program
linked to: Muscogee language

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma language program
spokenBy Muscogee (Creek) people
Seminole people
linked to: Seminole
spokenIn Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Oklahoma
United States
subfamilyOf Eastern Muskogean languages
linked to: Muskogean languages
taughtIn community language classes
tribal schools in Oklahoma
traditionalRegion southeastern United States
usedBy Muscogee (Creek) Nation government
usedFor language revitalization programs
usedIn Muscogee (Creek) Nation ceremonies
Muscogee oral literature
traditional Muscogee songs
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Creek (Muscogee) Nation hasLanguage Muscogee language
Kawita people language Muscogee language
subject linked to: Kawita (Coweta) people
Southeastern Woodlands includesPeople Hitchiti
linked to: Muscogee language
Muskogean languages hasLanguage Muscogee language
Muskogean languages hasLanguage Seminole language
linked to: Muscogee language
Muscogee language hasAlternativeName Mvskoke language
linked to: Muscogee language
Muscogee language regulatingBody Muscogee (Creek) Nation language program
linked to: Muscogee language
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma traditionalLanguage Muscogee (Creek) language
linked to: Muscogee language
Lower Creek territory associatedWith Muscogee language
Lower Creeks language Muscogee language