Alabama language

Alabama
Albaamo innaaɬiilka
Spoken in	United States
Region	Texas
Total speakers	100
Language family	Muskogean Eastern Muskogean Alabama; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	nai
ISO 639-3	akz
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Alabama is a Native American language, spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas. It was once spoken by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town of Oklahoma, but there are no more Alabama speakers in Oklahoma. It is a Muskogean language, and is believed to have been related to the Muklasa and Tuskegee languages, which are no longer extant. Alabama is closely related to Koasati and distantly to Hitchiti, Chickasaw and Choctaw. Also known as Alibamu.[1]

[edit] References

Davis, Philip; & Hardy, Heather. (1988). Absence of noun marking in Alabama. International Journal of Linguistics, 54 (3), 279-308.
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Alabama. In Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. Accessed online www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=akz on October 1, 2005.
Hardy, Heather; & Davis, Philip. (1988). Comparatives in Alabama. International Journal of Linguistics, 54 (2), 209-231.
Hardy, Heather; & Davis, Philip. (1993). Semantics of agreement in Alabama. International Journal of Linguistics, 59 (4), 453-472.
Hardy, Heather; & Montler, Timothy. (1988). Imperfective gemination in Alabama. International Journal of Linguistics, 54 (4), 399-415.
Montler, Timothy; & Hardy, Heather. (1991). Phonology of negation in Alabama. International Journal of Linguistics, 57 (1), 1-23.
Rand, Earl. (1968). Structural phonology of Alabaman, Muskogean language. International Journal of Linguistics, 34 (2), 94-103.
Sylestine, Cora; Hardy; Heather; & Montler, Timothy (1993). Dictionary of the Alabama Language. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73077-2. http://www.ling.unt.edu/~montler/Alabama.