MIKASUKI LANGUAGE

The 'Mikasuki language' (also 'Miccosukee' or 'Hitchiti-Mikasuki') is a Muskogean language spoken by around 500 people in southern Florida. It is spoken by the Miccosukee tribe as well as many Seminoles. The now-extinct Hitchiti language was mutually intelligible with Mikasuki.

Contents

Sounds

Grammar

External links

References

Sounds

The phonology is apparently:

	Front			Central			Back
Close	i
Mid							o
Open				a

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t		k
	Voiced	b
Affricate
Fricative	Central	f				h
	Lateral
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Lateral			l
Semivowel		w		j

Grammar

External links

★ A Global Linguistic Database: Mikasuki

★ Ethnologue report for Mikasuki

★ Rosetta Project Archive page on Mikasuki

References

West, John David. 1962. "The Phonology of Mikasuki." ''Studies in Linguistics'' 16:77-91.