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Key facts
- Native to
- United States
- Region
- From Southeastern Oklahoma , to east-central Mississippi and into Louisiana and Tennessee
- Ethnicity
- 20,000 Choctaw (2007)
- Native speakers
- 9,600 (2015 census)
- Language family
- Muskogean Western Choctaw
- Official language in
- Choctaw Nation
- Iso 639 2
- cho
- Iso 639 3
- cho
- Glottolog
- choc1276
- Elp
- Choctaw
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Country
- United States
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- Wikimedia language code
- cho
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
- writing system
- Latin script
- native label
- Chahta
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 9200
- indigenous to
- Tennessee
- topic's main category
- Category:Choctaw language
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cho
- P10369
- HTTP 404
- has phoneme
- glottal stop
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: Chahta), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean language family. Chickasaw is a separate but closely related language to Choctaw.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma published the New Choctaw dictionary in 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Choctaw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.