Muscogee language

Muscogee
Creek (exonym)
Mvskoke
Pronunciation	[maskókî]
Native to	United States
Region	East central Oklahoma, Muscogee and Seminole, south Alabama Creek, Florida, Seminole of Brighton Reservation.
Ethnicity	100,000 Muscogee people (2024)[1]
Native speakers	<400 (2024)[2]
Language family	Muskogean Eastern Muscogee
Official status
Official language in	United States    Muscogee Nation
Language codes
ISO 639-2	mus
ISO 639-3	mus
Glottolog	cree1270
ELP	Muskogee
Current geographic distribution of the Creek language
Distribution of Native American languages in Oklahoma
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The Muscogee language (also Muskogee [maskó:gi], Mvskoke [ma(:)skó:gi]), previously referred to by its exonym, Creek,^[3] is spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida.

Muscogee was historically spoken by various constituent groups of the Muscogee confederacy in what are now Alabama and Georgia. Muscogee belongs to a family of languages known as Muskogean. It is related to, but not mutually intelligible with, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Alabama, Koasati, Apalachee, and Hitchiti-Mikasuki.

Some Muscogee speakers began to join speakers of Hitchiti-Mikasuki in Florida in the early 18th century. Combining with other ethnicities there, they emerged as the Seminole. During the 1830s, however, the US government forced most Muscogee and Seminole to relocate west of the Mississippi River, with most forced into Indian Territory.

The language is today spoken by fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in Oklahoma and are members of the Muscogee Nation and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.^[4] Some speakers of Muscogee are also members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The variety of Muscogee spoken by Seminoles in Oklahoma is sometimes referred to as Seminole.