Mikasuki language

Mikasuki
Mikasuki
Hitchiti, Hitchiti-Mikasuki
Native to	United States
Region	Georgia, Southern Florida
Ethnicity	Miccosukee, Seminole
Native speakers	290 (2015 census)
Language family	Muskogean Eastern Mikasuki; ;
Early form	Hitchiti?
Dialects	Hitchiti †;
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
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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.

^ Mikasuki at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
^ "Voices of the Everglades: Indian Culture". The News-Press. March 22, 2014. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2014.

[e21-1] Mikasuki at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[2] "Voices of the Everglades: Indian Culture". The News-Press. March 22, 2014. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2014.

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