Muskogean languages

Muskogean
Geographic
distribution:		Southeastern North America
Linguistic classification:One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions:
Alabama–Koasati
Hitchiti–Mikasuki
Muscogee
Apalachee
Houma

Pre-contact distribution of Muskogean languages

Muskogean (also Muskhogean) is a language family spoken in the Southeastern United States. Members of the family are Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

One documented language, Apalachee, is no longer spoken, and the remaining languages are critically endangered.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Broadwell, George Aaron. (1992). Reconstructing Proto-Muskogean Language and Prehistory: Preliminary Results Archived 2006-01-07 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). Paper presented at the Southern Anthropological Society, St. Augustine, FL. Retrieved on 2009-05-03.

Other websites

Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Muskogean reconstructions
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