Alabama
[aka Alibamu,]Classification: Muskogean
·endangered
Classification: Muskogean
·endangered
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
Spoken by 250 to 300 residents of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation near Livingston, in the Big Thicket area of East Texas. Alabama speakers share the reservation with a smaller number of Koasati (Coushatta) speakers, and some individuals have learned to speak or understand both of these related languages. Until recently there were also a few elderly speakers of Alabama among the 900 enrolled members of the Alabama-Quassarte Tribe, an administrative subdivision of the Muskogee Creek Nation, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. In Texas, Alabama is the language of choice among those 50 and above and is used at home and at the Senior Citizen Center. The youngest speakers are probably in their teens.
Alabama-Coushatta Indian
Reservation near Livingston, in the Big Thicket area of East Texas. Until recently there were also a few
elderly speakers of Alabama among members of the Alabama-Quassarte Tribe, an
administrative subdivision of the Muskogee Creek Nation, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.
Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge
Alabama is the language of choice among those 50 and above and is used at home and at the Senior Citizen Center.
Efforts have been made to teach Alabama to young children in summer programs and to introduce it in preschool.
English
Koasati/Coushatta
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
460
250 (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 460 (2000 census).
Alabama: Coushatta Reservation near Livingston; Texas: southeast.
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
460
Data for the number of native speakers is from T. Montler (1997). The number of speakers is decreasing. Information for ethnic population is from the 2000 US census.
Southeastern Texas, Alabama-Coushatta Reservation near Livingston.