World Language Map

Muskogean languages map

6 Muskogean languages are on the map, most of them in United States. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Western Muskogean (2 languages). The best-known members include Choctaw, Creek and Koasati. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Muskogean family at a glance

  • 6languages
  • 0drawn as areas
  • 6shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Muskogean alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Muskogean languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Choctaw spoken? (about 9,200 speakers)
  2. Where is Creek spoken? (about 4,300 speakers)
  3. Where is Koasati spoken? (about 370 speakers)
  4. Where is Mikasuki spoken? (about 190 speakers)
  5. Where is Alabama spoken? (about 100 speakers)
  6. Where is Chickasaw spoken? (about 75 speakers)

Branches of Muskogean

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Western Muskogean (2)
  • Alabaman-Koasati (2)

Where Muskogean languages are spoken

Countries with the most Muskogean languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 6 Muskogean languages, A to Z

Questions about Muskogean languages

How many Muskogean languages are there?

6 living Muskogean languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Western Muskogean (2 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Muskogean languages spoken?

United States (6) have the most Muskogean languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Muskogean languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Choctaw (about 9,200), Creek (about 4,300) and Koasati (about 370). These figures differ between sources and years.

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