Mikasuki language

Mikasuki
Hitchiti, Hitchiti-Mikasuki
Native toUnited States
RegionGeorgia, Southern Florida
EthnicityMiccosukee, Seminole
Native speakers
290 (2015 census)[1]
Muskogean
  • Eastern
    • Mikasuki
Early form
Hitchiti?
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3mik
Glottologmika1239
ELPMikasuki
Mikasuki is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Mikasuki, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, or Hitchiti language is a language or a pair of dialects or closely related languages that belong to the Muskogean languages family. As of 2014, Mikasuki was spoken by around 290 people in southern Florida.[2] Along with the Cow Creek Seminole dialect of Muscogee, it is also known as Seminole. It is spoken by members of the Miccosukee tribe and of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The extinct Hitchiti was a mutually intelligible dialect of or the ancestor of Mikasuki.

  1. ^ Mikasuki at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Voices of the Everglades: Indian Culture". The News-Press. March 22, 2014. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2014.

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