muskogean|muskogeans in English

noun

group of Native American languages of southeastern USA (including Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek)

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1. Mary Haas later expanded this into the Gulf language family with the addition of the Muskogean languages.

2. Creeks the name given by Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries to the confederation of Muskogean Indian tribes

3. Choctaw, North American Indian tribe of Muskogean linguistic stock that traditionally lived in what is now southeastern Mississippi

4. Creek, Muskogean-speaking North American Indians who originally occupied a huge expanse of the flatlands of what are now Georgia and Alabama.

5. The Creeks are culturally and linguistically related to other southeastern Indian tribes, particularly Muskogean-speaking peoples such as the Choctaw and Chickasaw

6. Creeks who avoided relocation to Oklahoma tended to stop speaking the Muskogean language so they would not be recognized as Indians and therefore forced to leave their homes

7. Muskogean verbs have a complex ablaut system; the verbal stem almost always changes depending on aspect; less commonly, it is affected by tense or modality.