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Also known as Creek, mus, Muscogee language, Creek language, Creek (language)

Indigenous American language

Key facts

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)
Native speakers
<400 (2024)
Language family
Muskogean Eastern Muscogee
Official language in
Muscogee Nation
Iso 639 2
mus
Iso 639 3
mus
Glottolog
cree1270
Elp
Muskogee

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
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Wikimedia language code
mus
native label
Mvskoke
number of speakers, writers, or signers
4300
linguistic typology
agglutinative language
topic's main category
Category:Muscogee language
indigenous to
Oklahoma
Commons category
Muscogee language
different from
Cree
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Encyclopedic overview

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The Muscogee language (also Muskogee [maskóːgi], Mvskoke [ma(ː)skóːgi]), previously referred to by its exonym, Creek, is spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muscogee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.