Muskogean languages

Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a language family spoken in different areas of the Southeastern United States. Though the debate concerning their interrelationships is ongoing, the Muskogean languages are generally divided into two branches, Eastern Muskogean and Western Muskogean. Typologically, Muskogean languages are agglutinative. One documented language, Apalachee, is extinct and the remaining languages are critically endangered.

"Muskogean" redirects here. For the indigenous people, see Muscogee.

Muskogean
Geographic distribution	Southeastern North America
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions	Choctaw–Chickasaw Alabama–Koasati Hitchiti–Mikasuki Creek–Seminole Apalachee
Glottolog	musk1252[1]
Pre-contact distribution of Muskogean languages

Genetic relationships

Family division

The Muskogean family consists of six languages that are still spoken: Alabama, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek-Seminole, Koasati, and Mikasuki, as well as the now-extinct Apalachee, Houma, and Hitchiti (the last is generally considered a dialect of Mikasuki).[2] "Seminole" is listed as one of the Muskogean languages in Hardy's list, but it is generally considered a dialect of Creek rather than a separate language, as she comments.[3]

The major subdivisions of the family have long been controversial, but the following lower-level groups are universally accepted: Choctaw–Chickasaw, Alabama–Koasati, Hitchiti–Mikasuki, and Creek–Seminole.[4][5][6] Because Apalachee is extinct, its precise relationship to the other languages is uncertain; Mary Haas and Pamela Munro both classify it with the Alabama–Koasati group.[7]

Haas's classification

For connections among these groupings, the traditional classification is that of Mary Haas and her students, such as Karen Booker, in which "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw) is seen as one major branch, and "Eastern Muskogean" (Alabama-Koasati, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, and Creek-Seminole) as another. Within Eastern Muskogean, Alabama-Koasati and Hitchiti-Mikasuki are generally thought to be more closely related to each other than to Creek-Seminole.[8] That classification is reflected in the list below:[9][10]

• Western Muskogean
  • Chickasaw
  • Choctaw (also called Chahta, Chacato)
• Eastern Muskogean
  • Creek-Seminole (also called Muskogee, Maskoke, Seminole)
  • Hitchiti-Mikasuki (also called Miccosukee)
  • Apalachee–Alabama–Koasati
    • Apalachee †
    • Alabama (also called Alibamu)
    • Koasati (also called Coushatta)

Munro's classification

A more recent and controversial classification has been proposed by Pamela Munro. In her classification, the languages are divided into a "Southern Muskogean" branch (Choctaw-Chickasaw, Alabama-Koasati, and Hitchiti-Mikasuki) and a "Northern Muskogean" one (Creek-Seminole). Southern Muskogean is the subdivided into Hitchiti-Mikasuki and a "Southwestern Muskogean" branch containing Alabama-Koasati and "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw).[8] The classification is reflected in the list below:[11]

Northern Muskogean:

• Creek-Seminole

Southern Muskogean:

• Hitchiti-Mikasuki
• Southwestern Muskogean
  • Apalachee (†)
  • Alabama–Koasati
    • Alabama
    • Koasati
  • Western Muskogean
    • Chickasaw
    • Choctaw

Kimball's classification

A third proposed classification is that of Geoffrey Kimball, who envisions a threeway split among the languages, with "Western Muskogean" (Choctaw-Chickasaw), "Eastern Muskogean" (Creek-Seminole), and "Central Muskogean" (Alabama-Koasati and Hitchiti-Mikasuki).[12] However, Kimball's classification has not received as much support as either Haas's or Munro's.[13]

Broader relationships

Possible Muskogean languages

Several sparsely attested languages have been claimed to be Muskogean languages. George Broadwell suggested that the languages of the Yamasee and Guale were Muskogean.[14][15] However, William Sturtevant argued that the "Yamasee" and "Guale" data were Creek and that the language(s) spoken by the Yamasee and Guale people remain unknown.[16] It is possible that the Yamasee were an amalgamation of several different ethnic groups and did not speak a single language. Chester B. DePratter describes the Yamasee as consisting mainly of speakers of Hitchiti and Guale.[17] The historian Steven Oatis also describes the Yamasee as an ethnically mixed group that included people from Muskogean-speaking regions, such as the early colonial-era native towns of Hitchiti, Coweta, and Cussita.[18]

The Pensacola and Chatot (or Chacato) people are reported to have spoken the same Muskogean language, which may have been closely related to Choctaw.[19][20][21]

Sparse evidence indicates that a Muskogean language was spoken by at least some of the people of the paramount chiefdom of Cofitachequi in northeastern South Carolina. If so, that would be the most eastern outpost of Muskogean. The people of Cofitichequi were probably absorbed by nearby Siouan and Iroquoian speakers in the late 17th century.[22]

A vocabulary of the Houma may be another underdocumented Western Muskogean language or a version of Mobilian Jargon. Mobilian Jargon is a pidgin based on Western Muskogean.

Gulf

The best-known connection proposed between Muskogean and other languages is Mary Haas' Gulf hypothesis, in which she conceived of a macrofamily comprising Muskogean and a number of language isolates of the southeastern US: Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Natchez. While well-known, the Gulf grouping is now generally rejected by historical linguists.[14][23] A number of Muskogean scholars continue to believe that Muskogean is related to Natchez.[24]

Features

Phonology

Proto-Muskogean is reconstructed as having the consonants (given in IPA transcription):[25]

	Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar
		Central	Lateral		Plain	Labialized
Stops	*p	*t			*k	*kʷ
Affricates		*ts		*tʃ
Fricatives		*s	*ɬ	*ʃ	*x	*xʷ
Nasals	*m	*n
Approximants			*l	*j		*w
Other		*θ

The phonemes reconstructed by Haas as */x/ and */xʷ/ show up as /h/ and /f/ (or /ɸ/[26]), respectively, in all Muskogean languages;[27] they are therefore reconstructed by some as */h/ and */ɸ/.[11][28] */kʷ/ appears as /b/ in all the daughter languages except Creek for which it is /k/ initially and /p/ medially. The value of the proto-phoneme conventionally written ⟨θ⟩ (or ⟨N⟩) is unknown;[29] it appears as /n/ in Western Muskogean languages and as /ɬ/ in Eastern Muskogean languages. Haas reconstructed it as a voiceless /n/ (that is, */n̥/), based partly on presumed cognates in Natchez.[11][30]

Nouns

Most family languages display lexical accent on nouns and grammatical case, which distinguishes the nominative from the oblique. Nouns do not obligatorially inflect for gender or number.

Verbs

Muskogean verbs have a complex ablaut system; the verbal stem almost always changes depending on aspect; less commonly, it is affected by tense or modality. In Muskogean linguistics, the different forms are known as "grades."

Verbs mark for first and second person, as well as agent and patient (Choctaw also marks for dative). Third-persons (he, she, it) have a null-marker.

Plurality of a noun agent is marked by either affixation on the verb or an innately plural verbal stem:

Pluralization via affixation, Choctaw:

ishimpa

ish-impa

2SG.NOM-eat

"you [sg.] eat"

hashimpa

hash-impa

2PL.NOM-eat

"you [pl.] eat"

Innately-numbered verbal stems, Mikasuki:

łiniik

run. SG

"to run (singular)"

palaak

run. PAUCAL

"to run (several)"

mataak

run. PL

"to run (many)"

Vocabulary

Below is a list of basic vocabulary in five Muskogean languages from Broadwell (1992):[31]

gloss	Chickasaw	Choctaw	Alabama	Mikasuki	Creek
all	mõma	mõma	óyha	maamos-	omalka
ashes	hottok	hitokchobi	histo	tolhambi	iisso
belly	ittakoba'	iffoka	ikfi	lampi	nalhki
big	ishto	chito	coba	coob-	lhakkii
bird	foshi'	hoshi	foosi	foosi	foswa
bite	kisili	kopooli	kachalhlhi	kabalikci	akkita
black	losa	losa	loca	looci	lasti
blood	issish	issish	lhakhani	picikci	caati
bone	foni'	foni	cokfoni	-fooni	iffoni
breast	ip shik	ip shik	pisi	owaaci	hokpi
burn	lowa	lowah	libatli	yill-	noklhita
claw	iyyakchosh	iyyakchosh	iyyaksi	iiyakoosi	ilinkososwa
cloud	hoshonti	hoshõti	onoolici	hosoti	aholocii
cold	kapassa	kapassa	kasatka	kapaali	kasappi
come	minti	m ti	ila	ont-	atita
die	illi	illi	illi	il-	ilita
dog	ofi'	ofi	ifa	iifi	ifa
drink	ishko	ishko	isko	isk-	iskita
dry	shila	shila	solotka	sokook-	kalhpii
ear	haksibis	haksobish	hakco	hacoobi	hakco
earth	yakni'	yakni	ihaani	yakni	iikana
eat	impa	pa	ipa	imp-	hompita
egg	akankoshi'	akãkoshi	akaakocóòsi	onaasi	costaki
eye	ishkin	nishkin	ittilhi	iti	tolhwa
fat (grease)	niha	bila	nitokci	niihi	nihaa
fire	lowak	lowak	tikba	iiti	tootka
fish	nani'	nani	lhalho	lhaalhi	lhalho
fly, to	wakaa	hika	wakayka	yakaal-	tamkita
foot	iyyi'	iyyi	iyyi	iyi	ili
full	kayya	kayya	kayya	labakni	fackita
give	ima	ima	inka	iik-	imita
good	chokma	achokma	kano	hiilhi	h lhi
green	okchamali	okchamaali	okcakko	honotbitalakci	laani
hair	pãshi'/hishi'	pãshi/hishi	hissi	tokisi	issi
hand	ilbak	ibbak	ilbi	ilbi	inki
head	ishkobo'	noshkobo	isbakko	yoosi	ika
hear	hánglo	haklo	haalo	hakl-	pohita
heart	chõkash	chõkash	conoska	conosbi	fiiki
horn	lapish	lapish	lapihci	lap-i	yapi
I	ano'	ano	ana	aani	ani
kill	abi	abi	ibi	ill c	iliicita
knee	iyyinto'lhka'	iyyi kalaaha	ittôlhpa	tolhpi	tolhkowa
know	ithána	ikhana	sobayli	ataalh	kilhlhita
lie down, to	tí'wa	talaaya	baláàli	talaal	wakkita
liver	salakha	salakha	illopi	lopi	lopi
long	falaa	falaaya	baski	backi	capki
louse	issap	issap	icha	hicahci	icka
man	hattak nakni'	hattak nakni	naani	nakni	honanwa
many	lawa	lawa	lawa	aconki	solkii
meat (flesh)	nipi'	nipi	nipo	akni	apiswa
mountain	onchaba	habik	bokkoscaaha		iikanhalwii
mouth	iti	itialbi	icokhalbi	ici	cokwa
name	holhchifo	hohchifo	holcifa	hocilki	hocifka
neck	nokhistap	ikkõla	nokbi	nokbi	nokwa
new	himitta	himmona	hahpa	himaci	mocasi
night	oklhili'	ninak	tanka	niilhaki	nilhii
nose	ibichchala'	ibishakni	ibisaani	ibi	yopoo
not	ki'yo	kiiyo	mánko	maati	monks
one	chaffa	achaffa	caffaaka	lhaamin	hamkin
person (human)	hattak	hattak	aati	yaati	isti
rain	omba	õba	oyba	okoob-	oskita
red	homma	homma	homma	kitisci	caati
road (path)	hina'	hina	hini	hini	nini
root	haksish	hakshish	assikci	aski	yalomka
round	lhibokta	kalaaha	bonotka	polocki	polooki
say	aachi	aachi	manka	kaac	maakita
sand	shinok	shinok	sanco	samooci	oktaaha
see	p sa	p sa	hicha	hica	hicita
seed	nihi'	nihi	hilhikci	yiilhi	nilhka
sit	bínni'li	biniili	cokóòli	cokool-	leykita
skin	hakshop	hakshop	affakci	halbi	halhpi
sleep	nosi	nosi	noci	nooc-	nocita
small	iskanno'si	osi	cinoofa	wink-	cotki
smoke	shobohli	shobohli	sobotli	ockoci	ikkoci
stand	híkki'ya	hikiiya	lokóòli	lokooka	hoylhita
star	foshik	fichik	hociilhi	owaaciki	kocacampa
stone	tali'	tali	tali	tali	cato
sun	hashi'	hashi	hasi	haasi	hasi
swim	yopi	okshiniili	oohapka	opahk-	omeyyita
tail	hasimbish	has bis	haci	haaci	haci
that	yamma	ma	akki	ma	ma
this	yappa	pa	ya	ya	ya
thou	ishno'	chishno	isna	cihn-	ciimi
tongue	isõlash	ittõlas	icoolaksi	cokolaasi	tolaaswa
tooth	noti'	noti	innati	-nooti	noti
tree	itti'	itti	itto	ahi	ito
two	toklo	toklo	tôklo	toklan	hokkoolin
walk	nõwa	nowa	ciyahli	cayahl	yakapita
warm (hot)	lashpa	lashpa	ikba	hãyyi	hayyita
water	oka'	oka	oki	ooki	oywa
we	poshno'	pishno	posna	pohni	poomi
what	nanta	natah	náàsi	naaki	naaki
white	tohbi	tohbi	hatka	hatki	hatki
who	kata	katah	náksi	noolh-	isteyma
woman	ihoo	ohooyo	tayyi	tayki	hoktii
yellow	lakna	lakna	laana	lakni	laanii

Proto-language

Proto-Muskogean
Reconstruction of	Muskogean languages

Proto-Muskogean reconstructions by Booker (2005):

no.	gloss	Proto-Muskogean	branch
1	dove, pigeon	*pačiCi
2	stem, stalk	*apiCi
3	rock	*taliCi
4	tooth	*notiCi
5	skunk	*koniCo
6	(to) bloom	*pakanli
7	arrow	*θakiCi
8	night	*niθaki
9	yellow-shafted pucker	*xʷitokxaki
10	mulberry	*kʷixiCi
11	(to) copy, imitate	*a-xokʷa
12	behind	*yokʷala
13	pokeweed	*kosikʷaCa
14	(to) have ringworm	*xiClampakʷi
15	overtake	*¢aCki
16	(to) sleep	*no¢i
17	fox	*čolaCa
18	crawfish	*sakačiCo
19	otter	*osana
20	(to) boil	*moxoθi
21	pass through	*lompotVli
22	peel off	*čilaxʷa
23	pull, hold	*xalato
24	seed (in fruit)	*nixiliCi
25	ashes	*ixistoko
26	(to) sit (pl)	*kaxa
27	land	*ixakanika
28	(to) vomit)	*axowita
29	medicine	*axinlisi
30	axe	*čaxaxʷi
31	duck	*xʷočo
32	(to) name	*xocixʷa
33	screech owl	*xaxʷonlo
34	grandfather	*axʷaCo
35	(to) beat, stir up	*kʷaxʷo
36	(to) gnaw	*kalixʷi
37	fall off	*čilaxʷa
38	(to) whip, lash	*loCkanxʷo
39	chief, king	*minkkoCo
40	(to) protrude	*xʷama
41	bone	*xʷoniCi
42	liver, marrow	*lopiCi
43	(to) scratch, slice	*kalaxʷa
44	back (of body)	*θali
45	spring (of water)	*kaliCi
46	(to) doctor	*alikci
47	horn	*(i-)lapi
48	cuckoo	*talonktaCi
49	grubworm	*yolaCa
50	turtle	*lok¢iCa
51	(to) go	*aya
52	crane	*watonlaka
53	wildcat	*kowiCi
54	cricket	*šalontakiCa
55	squash	*šoksiCi
56	ant	*šonkkʷani
57	skin, rind	*axʷakšopi
58	son	*ošiCi
59	tendon, muscle, blood vessel, intestine	*xʷikši
60	yellow, green, brown	*lakna
61	trout	*¢akliCo
62	two	*toklo
63	sifting basket	*sakla
64	soft-shelled turtle	*xolakwaCa
65	hole, hollow	*olakkʷi
66	sun	*xasiCi
67	(to) offer	*wayli
68	hoe	*loyli
69	(to) mark	*čawli
70	persimmon	*xoθkoxʷa
71	mushroom	*paktiCo
72	sack, bag	*sokča
73	ghost	*silopi
74	turkey	*xʷakito
75	betsy bug	*i¢sonksiCo
76	(to) beg, plead for	*kosapi
77	hear	*xaklo
78	earthworm	*lakapčo
79	peach	*tapakonla
80	(of liquid)	*¢itko
81	flat and wide	*patakxa
82	wise	*ko¢tini
83	small	*i¢katini
84	(to) shoot at and hit	*i¢xo
85	smoke	*ičkoči
86	mother	*ičkiCi
87	rectum	*ičkoCkʷiko
88	(to) inflate	*sokpaxʷa
89	destroy, ruin	*xokpani
90	(to) adhere to	*alokpa
91	(to) pucker	*wiliksi	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
92	double	*poktaCa
93	tree	*iktiCo
94	frog	*sokaktiCi
95	pass wind	*xok¢o
96	upper arm	*sakkʷaCa
97	astringent tasting	*tikkʷa
98	opossum	*sokxaCa
99	rabbit	*čokxʷiCi
100	jaw, chin	*notakxʷa
101	bramble, briar	*kʷakčoko	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
102	rib, side	*nak¢iCi
103	flea	*kastiCo
104	(to) drink	*isko
105	rot, decay	*toskʷi
106	knee	*in-tolkopa
107	father	*iθkiCi
108	(to) steal	*xoθkopa
109	young	*ximanixta
110	day	*nixtaka
111	river	*xaxčaCi
112	hungry	*xox(ʷ)čaxʷa
113	different	*im-alaxka
114	(to) pinch	*yikixʷla
115	skin	*xalkʷiCi
116	wife	*xaliki	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
117	(to) forget	*ilxosi	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
118	(to) grow, sprout	*xolxʷanti
119	white oak	*kʷalyiCa
120	pine	*colyi	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
121	(to) raise animals	*apoykʷa
122	(to) eat (a meal)	*impa
123	(to) come	*ominti
124	pawpaw	*onkʷiCo
125	breast	*ipinsiki
126	(to) hide	*xolamxi
127	buy	*lonxʷa
128	(to) weave	*taCθa
129	(to) get warm from a heat source	*iCθi
130	(to) shoot at	*xonC¢a
131	war	*hoCli
132	(to) die	*iCli
133	pepper	*xoCma
134	(to) want, need	*kʷaCna
135	road	*xinaCi
136	dark	*tampki
137	stout	*lampko
138	snake	*¢inCtiCo
139	hard, rigid	*wantxa	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
140	shoot at	*xonC¢a
141	(to) cloak oneself	*anCči
142	whippoorwill	*xačokkʷilankkʷila
143	Canada goose	*axankxaCa
144	grasshopper	*xatankxʷaCo
145	grass	*panxsi
146	true	*anxli
147	hand, lower arm	*ilmkʷi
148	(to) rain	*oynkʷa
149	whoop like an Indian	*paynxa
150	(to) flow	*xoxʷayxna
151	heavy	*waylki
152	buy	*čowmpa
153	(to) suck	*sočonka
154	frost	*xitontiki
155	(to) play a game	*xompani	Proto-Eastern Muskogean
156	winter	*oθanxʷaCi
157	(to) pierce	*lompotVli

Notes

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muskogean". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Hardy 2005, pg. 69
3. (Hardy 2005:70; see also Mithun 2005:462, Crawford).
4. Broadwell 1992, p. 1
5. Hardy 2005, pg. 70
6. Martin & Munro 2005, pg. 299
7. Broadwell 1992, pp. 3; 41-2, footnote 2
8. Hardy 2005, pp. 70-71
9. Mithun 2005, pg. 461
10. Campbell 1997, pg. 147
11. Campbell 1997, pg. 148
12. Mithun 1999, pg. 462
13. Broadwell 1992
14. Campbell 1997, pg. 149
15. Broadwell 1992, pp. 41–42, fn. 2
16. Sturtevant 1994, referenced in Campbell 1997, pg. 149
17. Dr. Chester B. DePratter, "The Foundation, Occupation, and Abandonment of Yamasee Indian Towns in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1684-1715", National Register Multiple Property Submission
18. Oatis, Steven J. (2004). A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680–1730. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3575-5.
19. Milanich:96
20. Coker:6
21. Swanton:136
22. Hudson, Charles The Juan Pardo Expeditions Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pp. 68-73, 75
23. Campbell 1997, pp. 305-9
24. Campbell 1997, pg. 305
25. Booker 2005
26. Booker 2005, pg. 254
27. Booker 2005, pp. 248, 252, 254
28. Martin & Munro 2005, pg. 318, fn. 2
29. Booker 2005, pg. 286, footnote 7
30. Booker 2005, pp. 251-2
31. Broadwell, George Aaron. (1992). Reconstructing Proto-Muskogean Language and Prehistory: Preliminary Results. Paper presented at the Southern Anthropological Society, St. Augustine, FL.

External links

• Muskogean Language Family page at native-languages.org
• Chickasaw Language Information & Videos - Chickasaw.TV

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