Muskogean is a family of Indigenous languages of the southeastern United States, today most widely spoken in Oklahoma, comprising seven languages: Alabama, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Koasati, Hitchiti-Mikasuki and the extinct Apalachee. The languages are highly synthetic and agglutinative, and every surviving member is critically endangered. Linguists divide the family in more than one way: Mary Haas's classification splits it into a Western branch (Choctaw-Chickasaw) and an Eastern branch (Alabama-Koasati, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, Muscogee), while Pamela Munro's classification instead separates a Northern branch (Muscogee) from a Southern branch containing the rest. Muskogean is counted among the world's primary language families.
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RegionSoutheastern United States; Oklahoma today has the largest population of speakers 1 Proto-Language StatusProto-Muskogean phonology, including its consonant inventory, has been reconstructed by Mary Haas 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Muskogean Languages
WikipediaWikipedia, Muskogean languages, introduction
is a language family spoken in the Southeastern United States. The state with the largest population of speakers today is Oklahoma.
Wikipedia, Muskogean languages, section Proto-language, Phonology subsection
The phonemes reconstructed by Haas as */x/ and */xʷ/ show up as /h/ and /f/ (or /ɸ/), respectively, in all Muskogean languages
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