Mikasuki

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Mikasuki is a Native American language of the Muskogean family, traditionally spoken by the Miccosukee and some Seminole people in the southeastern United States.

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Mikasuki canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Muskogean language
Native American language
language
alsoKnownAs Hitchiti-Mikasuki
linked to: Hitchiti language

Miccosukee language
Mikasuki Creek
closelyRelatedTo Creek language
Hitchiti
linked to: Hitchiti language
culturalDomain Southeastern Woodlands cultures
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
ethnicGroup Miccosukee people
Seminole people
linked to: Seminole
glottocode mika1239
hasAlternativeName Mikasuki language
hasAlternativeSpelling Miccosukee
linked to: Miccosukee people
hasDialect Miccosukee dialect
linked to: Miccosukee language

Seminole dialect
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education initiatives
community language classes
documentation projects
hasLinguisticFeature aspectual prefixes
locative suffixes
noun incorporation
rich verbal morphology
switch-reference markers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal vowels
tone or pitch accent
hasSpeakerCommunity reservation communities in Florida
isDocumentedBy linguistic fieldwork
ISO639-3Code mik
isPartOf Indigenous languages of the Southeastern United States
isTaughtAt tribal schools in Florida
languageFamily Muskogean
linked to: Muskogean languages
languageStatus endangered language
morphologicalType agglutinative language
regionType Everglades region
linked to: Everglades
spokenIn Florida
Oklahoma
United States
subfamily Eastern Muskogean
traditionalRegion southeastern United States
usedBy Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
Seminole Tribe of Florida
linked to: Seminole
usedIn oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
traditional songs
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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