Hitchiti language

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The Hitchiti language is an extinct Native American tongue of the Muskogean family once spoken by the Hitchiti people in the southeastern United States.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Hitchiti language canonical 4
Hitchiti 2
Hitchiti–Mikasuki languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Muskogean language
Native American language
extinct language
language
associatedWith Apalachicola region
linked to: Apalachee

Lower Creek groups
linked to: Lower Creeks

Oconee people
linked to: Muscogee people
belongsTo Eastern Muskogean subgroup
linked to: Eastern Muskogean
classificationStatus well-attested but extinct
country United States
culturalRegion Southeastern United States Native cultures
documentationType grammatical notes
short texts
word lists
documentedBy linguists in the 19th century
ethnicGroup Hitchiti
linked to: Hitchiti language
extinctionCause language shift to Creek
language shift to English
glottologCode none
hasAlternativeName Hitchitee
Hitchiti-Mikasuki (in some classifications)
hasDialect Mikasuki (historically closely related)
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Creek language
Mikasuki language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature typical Muskogean consonant system
influencedBy neighboring Muskogean languages
ISO639-3 none
languageFamily Muskogean languages
languageFamilyBranch Muskogean
linked to: Muskogean languages
languageFamilyHigher Gulf (proposed macro-family)
region Southeastern Woodlands
relatedTo Creek language
Mikasuki language
Seminole language
replacedBy Creek language
English
spokenBy Hitchiti people
spokenIn Florida
Georgia
Southeastern United States
status extinct
subfamily Eastern Muskogean
timeDepth pre-contact to 19th–20th century
usedFor ceremonial purposes
everyday communication (historically)
oral tradition
wordOrder SOV (tendency)
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Muskogean languages hasLanguage Hitchiti language
Muscogee language hasDialects Hitchiti
linked to: Hitchiti language
Mikasuki language closelyRelatedTo Hitchiti language
Mikasuki language languageFamilyBranch Hitchiti–Mikasuki languages
linked to: Hitchiti language
Hitchiti language ethnicGroup Hitchiti
linked to: Hitchiti language
Proto-Muskogean language ancestorOf Hitchiti language
Hitchiti people language Hitchiti language