Alabama language

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The Alabama language is a Native American tongue traditionally spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta people of the southeastern United States and belongs to the Muskogean language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Alabama language canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Muskogean language
Native American language
endangered language
culturalAssociation Alabama-Coushatta tribal ceremonies
oral tradition
endangermentStatus severely endangered
hasAlternateName Alabama–Coushatta language
Alibamu
hasDocumentation audio recordings
grammars
text collections
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasGlottologCode alab1236
hasLinguisticType agglutinative language
polysynthetic language
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
noun incorporation
prefixes and suffixes
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal vowels
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntaxFeature postpositions
switch-reference markers
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3Code akz
languageFamily Muskogean languages
numberOfSpeakers fewer than 500
relatedTo Chickasaw language
Choctaw language
Koasati language
Mikasuki language
revitalizationEffort community language classes
dictionary development
documentation projects
spokenBy Alabama people
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
surface form: Alabama-Coushatta people

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
surface form: Alabama–Coushatta Tribe of Texas
spokenIn United States of America
surface form: United States
subfamily Eastern Muskogean
traditionalRegion Alabama
Southern United States
surface form: Southeastern United States

Texas
usedFor prayers
songs
traditional stories
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Muskogean languages hasLanguage Alabama language
Muscogee language closelyRelatedTo Alabama language
Alabama people spoke Alabama language
Alabama people traditionalLanguage Alabama language
Koasati language closelyRelatedTo Alabama language
Proto-Muskogean language ancestorOf Alabama language
Apalachee language closelyRelatedTo Alabama language