Mikasuki
Mikasuki is a Muskogean language spoken in United States, by about 190 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Mikasuki, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, or Hitchiti is a language or a pair of dialects or closely related languages that belong to the Muskogean languages family. As of 2014, Mikasuki was spoken by around 290 people in southern Florida. 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.
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Words in Mikasuki
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | yati* | |
| name | hoCilki* | |
| eye | iti* | |
| ear | hoCobi* | |
| nose | ibi* | |
| tooth | noti* | |
| tongue | Cokolasi* | |
| hand | ilbi* | |
| blood | piCikCi* | |
| bone | foni* | |
| skin | halbi* | |
| knee | toLpi* | |
| breast | owaCi* | |
| liver | lopi* | |
| water | oki | |
| fire | iti* | |
| sun | hasi* | |
| star | owaCiki* | |
| stone | tali* | |
| tree | ahi* | |
| night | niLaki* | |
| dog | ifi* | |
| fish | LaLi* | |
| louse | hiCaCi* | |
| one | Lamin* | |
| two | toklan* | |
| I | ani* | |
| you | Cin* | |
| we | poni* | |
| drink | isk* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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