This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{lang}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{IPA}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used - notably mik for Mikasuki. (December 2024) |
Mikasuki | |
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Hitchiti, Hitchiti-Mikasuki | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Georgia, Southern Florida |
Ethnicity | Miccosukee, Seminole |
Native speakers | 290 (2015 census)[1] |
Muskogean
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Early form | Hitchiti?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mik |
Glottolog | mika1239 |
ELP | Mikasuki |
Mikasuki is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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[update], 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.