Hitchitee

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Hitchitee is an alternative name for the Hitchiti language, a now-extinct Muskogean language once spoken by Indigenous peoples in the southeastern United States.

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Hitchitee canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Muskogean language
extinct language
language
alternativeNameOf Hitchiti language
closelyRelatedTo Creek language
Mikasuki language
country United States
documentedBy linguists in the 19th and 20th centuries
ethnicGroup Hitchiti people
Mikasuki people
Muscogee (Creek) people
linked to: Muscogee people
extinction 20th century
glottocode none
hasDialect Mikasuki
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
polysynthetic morphology
verb-final word order tendencies
ISO639-3 none
languageFamily Muskogean languages
partOf Muskogean language area
linked to: Muskogean languages
region Southeastern United States
spokenInPastBy Indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States
status extinct
subfamily Eastern Muskogean languages
linked to: Eastern Muskogean
usedBy Hitchiti towns of the historical Creek Confederacy
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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