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  Muskogean languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A vocabulary of the Houma may be another under-documented Western Muskogean language or a version of Mobilian Jargon.
Muskogean languages have been tenatively linked to the Natchez language of Lousiana.
Muskogean verbs have a complex ablaut system wherein the verbal stem changes depending on aspect (almost always), and less commonly depending on tense or modality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muskogean_languages   (396 words)

  
 Languages of Georgia Indians
The accepted classification of the languages in the Muskogean family was presented in 1941 by linguist Mary Haas.
All of the Georgia Muskogean languages are part of what she termed Eastern Muskogean, as opposed to the Western Muskogean languages of Choctaw and Chickasaw spoken in what is now Mississippi.
This third Eastern Muskogean was distinct from either Creek or Hitchiti and was closely related to the Alabama language spoken by people in central Alabama.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-2752   (919 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
Of the Muskogean tribes the Choctaws and Chickasaws were closely related while the Seminoles were an offshoot of the Creeks.
None of the Muskogean tribes were a unit in either blood or language.
Many of these were of Muskogean stock and readily exchanged their dialects for that of the Creeks.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v014/v014p053.html   (4617 words)

  
 Choctaw language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Choctaw language, traditionally spoken by the Native American Choctaw people of the southeastern United States, is a member of the Muskogean family.
The Choctaw language was well known as a lingua franca of the frontiersmen of the early 19th Century, including eventual American Presidents Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison.
Abstract of paper delivered at the 1978 Muskogean conference.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choctaw_language   (581 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Muskogean
Muskogean MUSKOGEAN [Muskogean], branch of Native North American languages belonging to the Hokan-Siouan linguistic family, or stock, of North and Central America.
Choctaw CHOCTAW [Choctaw], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
The peoples forming it were mostly of the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Muskogean   (413 words)

  
 languagehat.com: Comment on MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.
I think it's interesting how the four or seven languages of Muskogean are classified in more ways ways by different linguists than you might think possible for such a relatively small and transparently related family.
At 500 AD the Muskogean languages probably weren't that different yet, and they were probably still geographically pretty close together, so it seems entirely possible that some Muskogean dialect borrowed the word and passed it to all the others.
As for Muskogean, what I meant was that the greatest distance in the family is clearly between Chickasaw/Choctaw on one hand, and Creek/Seminole on the other.
www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2102   (2586 words)

  
 Seminole
Seminole, Native American tribe of the Muskogean language family and of the Southeast culture area.
Most spoke Muskogee, or Creek; those speaking Hitchiti, a related Muskogean language, are known as the Hitchiti-Mikasuki Seminole (see Native American Languages).
In the late 19th century they yielded to pressure to divide their tribal land into individual allotments and cede the surplus to the United States; this land was opened to settlers in 1889.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/seminole.htm   (348 words)

  
 Lesson Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Muskogean languages are related in structure, vocabulary, and built-in worldview.
In the Muskogean language family, there were nine major languages and several important dialects.
Most speakers are in Oklahoma, a Muskogean word from the Choctaw language.
www.tfn.net /Museum/language/lesson2.html   (767 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Muskogean
You have reached the page on Muskogean languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
Some linguists consider Muskogean to be a separate language family.
The following are Muskogean languages: Alabama, Biloxi, Chicasaw, Choctaw, Creek (not to be confused with Cree, an Algonkian-Mosan language), Koasati, Mikasuki, Natchez, Ofo, and Seminole.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/muskogh.htm   (988 words)

  
 Pamela Munro's Homepage
George A. Broadwell, Emanuel J. Drechsel, Heather K. Hardy, Geoffrey D. Kimball, Jack Martin, and I (with assistance by others) are compiling an analytical collection of cognate sets from languages of the Muskogean family.
Each year (with only one exception since 1989) I work with a speaker of an indigenous language of the Americas to translate Luke 2: 1, 3-20 into that language.
I regularly teach UCLA graduate courses in field methods (Linguistics 210AB); from time to time I teach graduate courses on the structure of various language families (e.g.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/linguistics/people/munro/munro.htm   (857 words)

  
 Dr. Broadwell's Research
This is a sketch of about 65 pages, which should be appearing later this year in a volume on Southeastern languages, edited by Janine Scancarelli and Heather Hardy, published by University of Nebraska Press.
It gives a nice overview of prominent phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of the language, and is intended for a general linguist with no special knowledge of Muskogean or Native American languages.
In it, I look at lexicostatistical data for the modern Muskogean languages (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Alabama, Koasati, Mikasuki, Creek, Seminole) and make arguments for the correct subgrouping of the languages, for the approximate date of Proto-Muskogean, and for some features of the Proto-Muskogean environment (particularly the flora and fauna).
www.albany.edu /anthro/fac/broadwell/research.htm   (811 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
North American Indian tribe of the Muskogean language family and of the Southeast culture area.
In the late 19th century they yielded to pressure to divide their tribal land into individual allotments and cede the surplus to the U.S.; this land was opened to settlers in 1889.
Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws are prohibited.
www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=221981   (342 words)

  
 Creek (people)
Native American tribe of Muskogean language family, and of the Southeastern culture area.
Most of the groups of the confederacy shared the same language (Muskogean), types of ceremonies, and village lay-out.
The Creek people lived in large permanent towns or italwa with smaller outlying villages or talofa that were associated with the larger town.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/creek.htm   (1302 words)

  
 [No title]
______ 1994 Implications of Plural Reduplication, Infixation, and Subtraction for Muskogean Subgrouping.
Munro, Pamela, and Charles H. Ulrich 1984 Structure-Preservation and Western Muskogean Rhythmic Lengthening.
Rand, Earl 1968 The Structural Phonology of Alabaman, a Muskogean Language.
www.wm.edu /linguistics/wahala/bibliography.doc   (3162 words)

  
 [No title]
The Muskogean tribes comprised the Mississipian culture which were temple-mound builders.
Among the Muskogean tribes were the Creeks, Hitichis and Yamasees of Georgia, the Apalachees of Florida, the Alabamas and Mobiles of Alabama, and the Choctaws, Chickasaws and Houmas of Mississippi.
The original Seminoles came to Florida because it was controlled by the Spanish, who had no interest in returning slaves to the British.
www.abfla.com /1tocf/seminole/semhistory.html   (1877 words)

  
 Muskogean
Alabama, indigenous people of North America - Alabama, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the...
Yamasee - Yamasee, Yamasi, or Yemasee, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch...
Chickasaw - Chickasaw, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0834577.html   (176 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Choctaw Indians
An important tribe or confederacy of Muskogean stock formerly holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi, with adjoining portions of Louisiana, U.S.A., but now resident in Eastern Oklahoma.
They were much given to an athletic ball-play, which is still a favourite among them in the West.
Not much is known of their myths or religion, which probably resembled those of the Muskogean tribes generally.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03692a.htm   (655 words)

  
 Vertical Lines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Coushattas, an important Muskogean speaking Indian tribe, had moved to village sites near what is now Montgomery, Alabama, when discovered by the French at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
This tribe was a member of the Upper Creek or Muskogee Confederacy and has always been closely associated with the Alabama Indian tribe.
In 1859, the Coushatta Tribe joined the Alabama Tribe on their small Reservation.The Coushattas, an important Muskogean speaking Indian tribe, had moved to village sites near what is now Montgomery, Alabama, when discovered by the French at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
lightning.prohosting.com /~bjgeiger/doodles/learn/divline.html   (498 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Muskogean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
MUSKOGEAN [Muskogean], branch of Native North American languages belonging to the Hokan-Siouan linguistic family, or stock, of North and Central America.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Muskogean" at HighBeam.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/muskogea.asp   (95 words)

  
 Muskogean Language
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 Mikasuki
It belongs to the Muskogean branch of Hokan-Siouan languages.
From the Mikasuki language, the name of a lake in northern Florida where they first settled.]
Native American tribe of the Muskogean language family and of the Southeast culture area.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/mikasuki.htm   (190 words)

  
 Chickasaw - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Chickasaw, Native American people of the Muskogean linguistic family, closely related to the Choctaw.
- Chickasaw language: the Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
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uk.encarta.msn.com /Chickasaw.html   (80 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
North American Indian tribe of Muskogean language family (see
A number of other Muskogean tribes were absorbed by the Creek, who held fl slaves and intermarried with them.
They signed a peace treaty with the U.S. in 1790, but in 1813, instigated by the British, factions of the confederacy took up arms against the Americans, beginning with a terrible massacre at Fort Mims.
www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=206743   (445 words)

  
 [No title]
, a Muskogean tribe also known as Chakchiuma, or Chatot, traces its roots to the Mississippi Valley and some parts of Alabama.
The Choctaw Indians' origin Myth is a fascinating one: The tribe had been travelling through rough terrain and dense forest for months, carrying the numerous bones of their dead; this task had taken its toll on the living, who grew more fatigued with each passing day of their seemingly unending journey.
Send mail to webmaster@americanindiantribe.com with questions or comments about this web site.
www.americanindiantribe.com /greene/ait_choctaw.htm   (85 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Muskogean charm songs among the Oklahoma Cherokees
Find in a Library: Muskogean charm songs among the Oklahoma Cherokees
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www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/358d94dc3496f9a0.html   (46 words)

  
 MavicaNET - Muskogean
Catálogo / Cultura / Idiomas / Familias de los idiomas de indios americanos / Muskogean
Reward yourself and follow all of the Buffalo Trails links!
Page dedicated to the languages of the Muskogean language family, with links to information on each language and the American Indian people who speak it.
www.mavicanet.com /lite/spa/2062.html   (183 words)

  
 Lynn Gordon
* “The Syntactic Status of Noun Clauses in Western Muskogean.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 1987.
* “Relative Clauses in Western Muskogean Language.” Linguistics Program, University of Utah, 1985 (invited).
* “Syntactic differences in Western Muskogean,” Pacific Linguistics Conference, 1985.
www.wsu.edu /~gordonl/vita_lynn_gordon.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Northwest Florida Place Names of Indian Origin - Apalachee
Apalachee culture seems to have been a cross between
that of the other Florida tribes and their own Muskogean (Creek) relatives to the north.
Their architecture was definitely of the southern style,
www.snyderweb.com /placenames/book02.htm   (748 words)

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