Mayaimi language

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The Mayaimi language was the now-extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Mayaimi people around Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language
associatedToponym Lake Mayaimi NERFINISHED
Lake Okeechobee NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentationStatus very poorly attested
ethnicGroup Mayaimi people NERFINISHED
evidenceType early colonial reports
toponyms
extinctionCause European contact
disease
displacement
extinctionPeriod colonial era
glottologCode none
historicalEra early colonial North America
pre-Columbian North America
ISO639-3 none
languageFamily unclassified
namedAfter Mayaimi people NERFINISHED
possibleRelation Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
Muskogean languages NERFINISHED
regionNow state of Florida
regionType Everglades area NERFINISHED
spokenIn Florida NERFINISHED
Lake Okeechobee region NERFINISHED
southern Florida
status extinct
writingSystem none

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Mayaimi culture hasLanguage Mayaimi language