Alabama
[también conocido como Alibamu,]Clasificación: Muskogean
·en peligro de extinción
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En peligro de extinción
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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250-300
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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.
- LUGARES
- Texas, Oklahoma
- DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
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.