Choctaw language

Choctaw
	Chahta'
Native to	United States
Region	Southeastern Oklahoma and east central Mississippi, and into Louisiana and Tennessee
Ethnicity	Choctaw
Native speakers	10,400 and decreasing (2010 census)
Language family	Muskogean Western Choctaw; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	cho
ISO 639-3	cho
Glottolog	choc1276
	Distribution of Native American languages in Oklahoma
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The Choctaw language, traditionally spoken by the Native American Choctaw people of the southeastern United States, is a member of the Muskogean family. Although Chickasaw is sometimes listed as a dialect of Choctaw, more extensive documentation of Chickasaw has shown that Choctaw and Chickasaw are best treated as separate but closely related languages.^[3]

Orthography

The written Choctaw language is based upon English version of the Roman alphabet and was developed in conjunction with the civilization program of the United States in the early 19th century. Although there are other variations of the Choctaw alphabet, the three most commonly seen are the Byington (Original), Byington/Swanton (Linguistic), and Modern (Mississippi Choctaw).

Byington (Original)

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The Choctaw "Speller" alphabet as found in the Chahta Holisso Ai Isht Ia Vmmona, 1800s.

Byington/Swanton (Linguistic)

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The Choctaw linguistic alphabet as found in the Choctaw Language Dictionary by Cyrus Byington and edited by John Swanton, 1909.

Modern (Mississippi Choctaw)

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The Modern Choctaw alphabet as used by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Present.

Modern (linguistic variant)

File:Cyrus Byington.png

Rev. Cyrus Byington worked nearly 50 years translating the Bible into Choctaw. He stayed with the Choctaws in Mississippi before removal and followed them to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) after their 'removal'.

Many publications by linguists about the Choctaw language use a slight variant of the "modern (Mississippi Choctaw)" orthography listed here, where long vowels are written as doubled. In the "linguistic" version, the acute accent shows the position of the pitch accent, rather than the length of the vowel.
The discussion of Choctaw grammar below uses the linguistic variant of the orthography.

Dialects

There are three dialects of Choctaw (Mithun 1999):

"Native" Choctaw on the Choctaw Nation in southeastern Oklahoma
Mississippi Choctaw of Oklahoma on Chickasaw Nation of south central Oklahoma (near Durwood)
Choctaw of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians near Philadelphia, Mississippi

Other speakers live near Tallahassee, Florida, and with the Koasati in Louisiana, and also a few speakers live in Texas and California.

Phonology

When suffixes are mentioned within this section, please refer to the section on Morphology for further clarification.

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
	Labial	central	lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Stop¹	p b	t			k	ʔ²
Affricate				ch [tʃ]
Fricative	f	s³	ɬ	sh [ʃ³]		h
Approximant			l	y [j]	w

^ The only voiced stop is /b/. The voiceless stops /p/, /t/, and /k/ may become partially voiced between vowels, especially /k/ and especially for male speakers. Additionally, the voiceless stops are slightly aspirated at the onset of words^[4] and before stressed syllables, behaving like English voiceless plosives.
^ According to one analysis, all words must end in a consonant.^[5] Words apparently ending in a vowel actually have either a glottal stop /ʔ/ or a glottal fricative /h/ as the final consonant. These consonants become realized when suffixes are attached.
^ The phonemes /s/ and /ʃ/ are neutralized at the end of words.

Free variation

There is pronunciation variability of some consonants in Choctaw that occurs with some speakers.^[6]

/ɬ/, the voiceless lateral fricative, is pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative /θ/.^[6]

/ɬ/→[θ]

The voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ is pronounced as a voiceless bilabial fricative /ɸ/.^[6]

/f/→[ɸ]

Phonological processes of consonants

In Choctaw /k/, the voiceless velar plosive, is realized as [ɣ], a voiced velar fricative, when in intervocalic position.^[4]

/k/→[ɣ]/V_V

imofi-aki-lih→imofiy-əɣə̃:-lih

The voiceless glottal fricative /h/ is realized as a voiceless palatal fricative [ç] when it precedes the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate /tʃ/.^[4]

/h/→[ç]/_tʃ

katihchish→katiçtʃiʃ

Vowels

	Short¹	Long	Nasal²
Close front	i	iː	ĩː
Close-mid back	o	oː	õː
Open central	a	aː	ãː

^ In closed syllables, [ɪ], [ʊ], and [ə] occur as allophonic variants of /i/, /o/, and /a/. Traditional orthography distinguishes the lax allophones from the tense vowels but failed to distinguish phonemic long vowels from phonemic short ones.
^ Nasal vowels are not distinguished by duration as are oral vowels. However, nasal vowels are phonetically long, suggesting an underlying phoneme /N/.

Pitch

In Choctaw, there are almost no minimal pairs distinguished only by pitch accent.^[7] Nouns in Choctaw will have pitch realization at the penultimate syllable or the ultimate syllable.^[7] Verbs in Choctaw will have pitch realization at morphemes indicating tense, however pitch can directly precede the tense morpheme on occasion.^[7]

Syllable structure

Syllables of Choctaw^[8]

Syllable	Type	Example
V	Light	a.bih
CV	Light	no.sih
VV	Heavy	ii.chih
CVV	Heavy	pii.ni'
V	Heavy	a.chi'
CV	Heavy	ta.chi'
VC	Heavy	ish.ki'
CVC	Heavy	ha.bish.ko'
VVC	Super Heavy	óok.cha-cha
CVVC	Super Heavy	náaf.ka'
VC	Super Heavy	at
CVC	Super Heavy	ok.hish
*(C)VCC	Super Heavy	tablit.tapt
*CCV	Super Heavy	ski.tii.nnih

As seen in the chart above, there are three syllable structure types in Choctaw: Light, Heavy and Super Heavy. And all the possible syllables in Choctaw must contain at least one vowel of any quality.^[9]
Syllables cannot end with a consonant clusters, CC. However, there is an exception with the structure *(C)VCC which occurs when a word in Choctaw ends with the suffix /-t/.^[9]
Syllables do not begin with consonant clusters, CC, however, there is an exception to this rule described below in initial /i-/ deletion that will result with a syllable *CCV .^[9]

Rhythmic lengthening

Rhythmic lengthening is the process of lengthening the vowel duration of an even numbered CV syllable in Choctaw. However there is a limitation on this process because vowels at the end of words in Choctaw are not permitted to undergo this process. Also, when an even numbered syllable is a verbal prefixes class I or III, the affix's vowel is not permitted to undergo lengthening, and the same holds true for noun prefixes class III as well.^[10]

CV-CV-CVC→CV-CV:-CVC

salahatok→sala:hatok

The smallest possible word

The smallest possible word in Choctaw must contain either two short vowels or one long vowel.^[8]

a:t

/A-/ insertion: In Choctaw there are verbs that only contain one short vowel in their roots, and without an affix attached to the verb root, these verbs become impossible utterances because Choctaw requires either two short vowel or a long vowel for a word to be formed. In order to overcome this issue an initial A- prefix is attached to the root of the verb.^[11]

*bih → a-bih

Phonological processes

Glide insertion

When a verb root ends with a long vowel, a glide /w/ or /j/ is inserted after the long vowel.^[12]
∅→/wa/ / V:____

Where V: is oo
boo-a-h→bóowah

∅→/ja/ / V:____

Where V: can be either ii or aa
talaa-a-h→talaayah

/i-/ deletion

In Choctaw, there is a group of nouns which contain an initial /i-/ that encodes for 3rd person possession. This initial /i-/ can be optionally deleted, however if the /i/ is part of a VC syllable structure, the C is also deleted, because in most cases the resulting CCV syllable is not a permissible syllable structure at the onset of words.^[13]

/i/→∅ / #____

Part 1: /i + C/→∅ + /C/ / #____

Part 2: /∅ + C/→∅ / #____

ippókni'→ppókni'→pókni'

/-l-/ infix assimilation

The verbal infix /l/ is realized as /h, ch, or ɬ/ when /l/ precedes a voiceless consonant.^[14]

l → {h, tʃ, ɬ} /_C_[-voice]

ho-l-tinah → ho-ɬ-tinah

The phonological processes of the suffix /-li/

There are several assimilation processes that occur with the suffix /-li/. First when the verbal suffix /-li/ is preceded by any of the following consonants /f/ /ɫ/ /h/ /m/ /n/ or /w/, the /l/ assimilates to the corresponding consonant that precedes it.^[15] Second, when the verbal suffix /-li/ is preceded by the consonant /b/, the /l/ is realized as /b/.^[15] Third, when the verbal suffix /-li/ is preceded by the consonant /p/, the /p/ is realized as /b/.^[15] Lastly, when the verbal suffix /-li/ is preceded by the consonant /t/, the /t/ is realized as /l/.^[15]

/l/→/f, ɫ, h, m, n, w/ / /f, ɫ, h, m, n, w/____

/kobaf-li-h/→ kobaaffih

/l/→/b/ / /b/____

/atob-li-h/→ atobbih

/p/→/b/ / /b/____

/tap-li-h/→ tablih

/t/→/l/ / ____/l/

/palhat-li-h/→ pallalih

There are two deletion processes that occur with the suffix /-li/. First when the verbal suffix /-li/ precedes the verbal suffix /-tʃi/, the suffix /-li/ is optionally deleted. However, this is only allowed if the resulting syllable after deletion will not be a consonant cluster.^[16] The other process occurs when the verbal suffix /-li/ precedes the suffix /-t/, which results with the suffix /-li/ being optionally deleted. However, this only allowed if the syllable /-li/ has not already gone under phonological processes as described above.^[17]

/li/→∅ / ____/tʃi/

balii-li-chi-h→balii-chi-h

/li/→∅ / ____/t/

balii-li--h→balii-t

Schwa insertion

Schwa insertion: when a glottal fricative /h/ or a velar stop /k/ precedes a voiced consonant within a consonant cluster, a schwa /ə/ is inserted to break up the consonant cluster.^[18]

∅→/ə/ / /h/____[+voiced] consonant

∅→/ə/ / /k/____[+voiced] consonant

'ahnih'→/ahənih/

Vowel deletion

Vowel deletion in Choctaw is the process of a short vowel being deleted at a morpheme boundary. This process occurs when an affix containing a short vowel at the morpheme boundary binds to a word which also contains a short vowel at the morpheme boundary.^[19]

For the majority of vowel deletion cases, the preceding short vowel is deleted at the morpheme boundary.^[19]

V→∅ / ____V

/baliili-aatʃĩ-h/→baliilaatʃĩh

In the case when a class II suffix attaches to a word that results with two short vowels occurring together, the short vowel that follows the class II suffix will be deleted.^[19]

V→∅ / V____

/sa-ibaa-waʃoohah/→sabaa-waʃoohah

Morphology and grammar

Verbal morphology

Choctaw verbs display a wide range of inflectional and derivational morphology. In Choctaw, the category of verb may also include words that would be categorized as adjectives or quantifiers in English. Verbs may be preceded by up to three prefixes and followed by as many as five suffixes. In addition, verb roots may contain infixes that convey aspectual information.

Verb prefixes

The verbal prefixes convey information about the arguments of the verb—how many there are and their person and number features. The prefixes can be divided into three sorts: agreement markers, applicative markers, and anaphors (reflexives and reciprocals). These prefixes occur in the following order:

Agreement-Anaphor-Applicative-Verb Stem

Agreement affixes

The agreement affixes are shown in the following chart. All but one of them are prefixes, only (-li) is a suffix.^[20]

	I	II	III	N
1st sg.	(-li)	sa-	am-/a̱-	ak-
2nd sg	ish-	chi-	chim-/chi̱-	chik-
1st pl.	il-/ii-	pi-	pim-/pi̱-	kil-/kii-
2nd pl.	hash-	hachi-	hachim-/hachi̱-	hachik-
unmarked	∅	∅	im/i̱-	ik-

I, II, and III are neutral labels for the three person marking paradigms. Some authors (Ulrich 1986, Davies, 1986) have called them actor–patient–dative or nominative–accusative–dative.

The 1sg I agreement marker is /-li/, the only suffix among the agreement markers. It is discussed in this section along with the other agreement markers.

I, II, and III agreement are conditioned by various kinds of arguments. Transitive active verbs show the most predictable pattern. With a typical transitive active verb, the subject will take I agreement, the direct object will take II agreement, and the indirect object will take III agreement.

As the chart above shows, there is no person-number agreement for third person arguments. Consider the following paradigms:

Habli-li-tok 'I kicked him/her/it/them.'
Ish-habli-tok 'You kicked him/her/it/them.'
Habli-tok 'She/he/it/they kicked him/her/it/them.'
Ii-habli-tok 'We kicked him/her/it/them.'
Hash-habli-tok 'Y'all kicked him/her/it/them.'
Sa-habli-tok 'She/he/it/they kicked me.'
Chi-habli-tok 'She/he/it/they kicked you.'
Habli-tok 'She/he/it/they kicked him/her/it/them.'
Pi-habli-tok 'She/he/it/they kicked us.
Hachi-habli-tok: 'She/he/it/they kicked y'all.'
Am-anoli-tok 'She/he/it/they told me.'
Chim-anoli-tok 'She/he/it/they told you.'
Im-anoli-tok 'She/he/it/they told him/her/it/them.'
Pim-anoli-tok 'She/he/it/they told us.'
Hachim-anoli-tok 'She/he/it/they told y'all.'

When a transitive verb occurs with more than one agreement prefix, I prefixes precede II and III prefixes:

Iichipí̱satok.

Ii-chi-pí̱sa-tok

1pI-2sII-see⟨NGR⟩-PT

'We saw you.'

Ishpimanoolitok.

Ish-pim-anooli-tok.

2sI-1pIII-tell-PT

'You told us.'

Intransitive verbs show more complicated patterns of agreement. For intransitive verbs, the subjects of active verbs typically trigger I agreement, the subjects of stative verbs typically trigger II agreement, and III agreement is found with the subjects of some psychological verbs.^[21]

Baliililitok.

Baliili-li-tok

run-1sI-PT

'I ran.'

Saniyah.

Sa-niya-h.

1sII-fat-TNS

'I am fat.'

a̱ponnah.

a̱-ponna-h.

1sIII-skilled-TNS

'I am skilled.'

This type of morphology is generally referred to as active–stative.

Negatives

The set of agreement markers labelled N above is used with negatives.^[22] Negation is multiply marked, requiring that an agreement marker from the N set replace the ordinary I agreement, the verb appear in the lengthened grade (see discussion below), and that the suffix /-o(k)-/ follow the verb, with deletion of the preceding final vowel. The optional suffix /-kii/ may be added after /-o(k)-/. Consider the following example:

Akíiyokiittook.
Ak-íiya-o-kii-ttook
1sN-go⟨LGR⟩-NEG-NEG-DPAST
'I did not go.'

Compare this with the affirmative counterpart:

Iyalittook
Iya-li-ttook.
go-1sI-DPAST
'I went'.

To make this example negative, the 1sI suffix /-li/ is replaced by the 1sN prefix /ak-/; the verb root iya is lengthened and accented to yield íiya; the suffix /-o/ is added, the final vowel of iiya is deleted, and the suffix /-kii/ is added.

Anaphoric prefixes

Reflexives are indicated with the /ili-/ prefix, and reciprocals with /itti-/:^[23]

Ilipísalitok.
li-pí̱sa-li-tok.
REFL-see⟨NGR⟩-1sI-PT
'I saw myself'.

Verb suffixes

While the verbal prefixes indicate relations between the verb and its arguments, the suffixes cover a wider semantic range, including information about valence, modality, tense and evidentiality.

The following examples show modal and tense suffixes like /-aachii̱/ 'irrealis'(approximately equal to future), /-tok/ 'past tense', /-h/ 'default tenses':^[24]

Baliilih.

Baliili-h.

run-TNS

'She runs.'

Baliilaachi̱h.

Baliili-aachi̱-h.

run-IRR-TNS

'She will run.'

There are also suffixes that show evidentiality, or the source of evidence for a statement, as in the following pair:^[25]

Nipi’ awashlihli.

Nipi’ awashli-hli

meat fry-first:hand

'She fried the meat.' (I saw/heard/smelled her do it.)

Nipi’ awashlitoka̱sha.

Nipi’ awashli-tok-a̱sha

meat fry-PT-guess

'She fried the meat.' (I guess)

There are also suffixes of illocutionary force which may indicate that the sentence is a question, an exclamation, or a command:^[26]

Awashlitoko̱?

Awashli-tok-o̱

fry-PT-Q

'Did she fry it?'

Chahta’ siahokii!

Chahta’ si-a-h-okii

Choctaw 1sII-be-TNS-EXCL

'I'm Choctaw!' or 'I certainly am a Choctaw!'

Verbal infixes

Choctaw verb stems have various infixes that indicate their aspect.^[27] These stem variants are traditionally referred to as 'grades'. The table below shows the grades of Choctaw, along with their main usage.

Name of Grade	How it is formed	When it is used
n-grade	infix n in the next to last (penultimate) syllable; put accent on this syllable	to show that the action is durative (lasts some definite length of time)
l-grade	put accent on next to last (penultimate) syllable; lengthen the vowel if the syllable is open	before a few common suffixes, such as the negative /-o(k)/ and the switch-reference markers /-cha/ and /-na/
hn-grade	insert a new syllable /-hV̱/ after the (original) next to last (penultimate) syllable. V̱ is a nasalized copy of the vowel that precedes it.	to show that the action of the verb repeats
y-grade	insert -Vyy- before the next to last (penultimate) syllable	to show delayed inception
g-grade	formed by lengthening the penultimate vowel of the stem, accenting the antepenultimate vowel, and geminating the consonant that follows the antepenult.	to show delayed inception
h-grade	insert -h- after the penultimate vowel of the stem.	to show sudden action

Some examples that show the grades follow:

In this example the l-grade appears because of the suffixes /-na/ 'different subject' and /-o(k)/ 'negative':

... lowat táahana falaamat akíiyokiittook.

lowa-t táaha-na falaama-t ak-íiya-o-kii-ttook

burn-SS complete⟨LGR⟩-DS return-SS 1sN-go⟨LGR⟩-NEG-NEG-DPAST

'... (the school) burned down and I didn't go back.'

The g-grade and y-grade typically get translated into English as "finally VERB-ed":

Taloowah.

Taloowa-h

sing-TNS

'He sang.'

Tálloowah.

Tálloowa-h

sing⟨GGR⟩-TNS

'He finally sang.'

The hn-grade is usually translated as 'kept on VERBing':

Ohó̱bana nittak pókkooli’ oshtattook.

Ohó̱ba-na nittak pókkooli’ oshta-ttook

rain⟨HNGR⟩-DS day ten four-DPAST

'It kept on raining for forty days.'

The h-grade is usually translated "just VERB-ed" or "VERB-ed for a short time":

Nóhsih.

Nóhsi-h

sleep⟨HGR⟩-TNS

'He took a quick nap.

Nominal morphology

Noun prefixes

Nouns have prefixes that show agreement with a possessor.^[28] Agreement markers from class II are used on a lexically specified closed class of nouns, which includes many (but not all) of the kinship terms and body parts. This is the class that is generally labeled inalienable.

sanoshkobo’ 'my head'

sa-noshkobo’

1sII-head

chinoshkobo’ 'your head'

chi-noshkobo’

2sII-head

noshkobo’ 'his/her/its/their head'

noshkobo’

head

sashki’ 'my mother'

sa-ishki’

1sII-mother

chishki’ 'your mother'

chi-ishki’

2sII-mother

Nouns that are not lexically specified for II agreement use the III agreement markers:

a̱ki’ 'my father'

a̱-ki’

1sIII-father

amofi’ 'my dog'

am-ofi’

1sIII-dog

Although systems of this type are generally described with the terms alienable and inalienable, this terminology is not particularly appropriate for Choctaw, since alienability implies a semantic distinction between types of nouns. The morphological distinction between nouns taking II agreement and III agreement in Choctaw only partly coincides with the semantic notion of alienability.

Noun suffixes

Choctaw nouns can be followed by various determiner and case-marking suffixes, as in the following examples, where we see determiners such as /-ma/ 'that', /-pa/ 'this', and /-akoo/ 'contrast' and case-markers /-(y)at/ 'nominative' and /-(y)a̱/ 'accusative':^[29]

alla’ naknimat

alla’ nakni-m-at

child male-that-NOM

'that boy (nominative)'

Hoshiit itti chaahamako̱ o̱biniilih.

Hoshi’-at itti’ chaaha-m-ako̱ o̱-biniili-h

bird-NOM tree tall-that-CNTR:ACC SUPERESSIVE-sit-TNS

'The bird is sitting on that tall tree.' (Not on the short one.)

The last example shows that nasalizing the last vowel of the preceding N is a common way to show the accusative case.

Word order and case marking

The simplest sentences in Choctaw consist of a verb and a tense marker, as in the following examples:^[30]

o̱batok.

o̱ba-tok

rain-PT

'It rained.'

Niyah.

niya-h

fat-TNS

'She/he/it is fat, they are fat.'

Pí̱satok.

pí̱sa-tok

see⟨NGR⟩-PT

'She/he/it/they saw her/him/it/them.'

As these examples show, there are no obligatory noun phrases in a Choctaw sentence, nor is there any verbal agreement that indicates a third person subject or object. There is no indication of grammatical gender, and for third person arguments there is no indication of number. (There are, however, some verbs with suppletive forms that indicate the number of a subject or object, e.g. iyah 'to go (sg.)', ittiyaachih 'to go (du.)', and ilhkolih 'to go (pl)'.)

When there is an overt subject, it is obligatorily marked with the nominative case /-at/. Subjects precede the verb

Hoshiyat apatok.

hoshi'-at apa-tok

bird-NOM eat-PT

'The birds ate them.'

When there is an overt object, it is optionally marked with the accusative case /-a̱/

Hoshiyat sho̱shi(-ya̱) apatok.

hoshi'-at sho̱shi'(-a̱) apa-tok.

bird-NOM bug-(ACC) eat-PT

'The birds ate the bugs.'

The Choctaw sentence is normally verb-final, and so the head of the sentence is last.

Some other phrases in Choctaw also have their head at the end. Possessors precede the possessed noun in the Noun Phrase:

ofi' hohchifo'

dog name

'the dog's name'

Choctaw has postpositional phrases with the postposition after its object:

tamaaha' bili̱ka

town near

'near a town'

Examples

Some common Choctaw phrases (written in the "Modern" orthography):

Choctaw: Chahta
hi: Halito!
See you later!: Chi pisa la chike!
number: holhtina/holhtini
Thank you: Yakoke
What is your name?: Chi hohchifo yat nanta?
My name is...: Sa hohchifo yat...
yes: a̱
no: kíyo
okay: ohmi
I don't understand.: Ak akostiníncho.
I don't know.: Ak ikháno.
Do you speak Choctaw?: Chahta imanompa ish anompola hinla ho̱?
What is that?: Yammat nanta?

Other Choctaw words:

Cherokee: Chalaki
Chickasaw: Chickashsha
Seminole: Siminóli
Creek/Muskogee: Maskóki
today: himak nittak
tonight: himak ninak
tomorrow: onnakma
yesterday: piláshásh
month: hashi
year/2009: affami/talhípa sippokni toklo akochcha chakkali
house: chokka
school: holisso ápisa
cat: katos
dog: ofi
cow: wák
horse: issoba/soba

Counting to twenty:

one: achoffa
two: toklo
three: tochchína
four: oshta
five: talhlhapi
six: hannali
seven: o̱toklo
eight: o̱tochchina
nine: chakkali
ten: pokkoli
eleven: awahachoffa
twelve: awahtoklo
thirteen: awahtochchina
fourteen: awahoshta
fifteen: awahtalhlhapi
sixteen: awahhannali
seventeen: awaho̱toklo
eighteen: awahuntochchina
nineteen: abichakkali
twenty: pokkoli toklo

At " Native Nashville " web [1], there is an Online Choctaw Language Tutor, with Pronunciation Guide and four lessons: Small Talk, Animals, Food and Numbers.

Citations

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↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 Broadwell (2006:16-18)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Broadwell (2006:18-20)
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 Broadwell (2006:18-19)
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↑ ^19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 Broadwell (2006:26)
↑ Broadwell (2006:137-140)
↑ Broadwell (2006:140-142)
↑ Broadwell (2006:148-152)
↑ Broadwell (2006:98-99)
↑ Broadwell (2006:169-183)
↑ Broadwell (2006:184-190)
↑ Broadwell (2006:191-193)
↑ Broadwell (2006:161-168)
↑ Broadwell (2006:52-63)
↑ Broadwell (2006:64-92)
↑ Broadwell (2006:32)

References

Broadwell, George Aaron. (2006). A Choctaw Reference Grammar. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1315-8.

External links

[e18-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Choctaw at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[3] Munro 1984

[Broadwell15_2006-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Broadwell (2006:15)

[Broadwell19-20_2006-5] Broadwell (2006:19-20)

[Broadwell15-20_2006-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Broadwell (2006:15-20)

[Broadwell16-18_2006-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 Broadwell (2006:16-18)

[Broadwell18-20_2006-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Broadwell (2006:18-20)

[Broadwell18-19_2006-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 Broadwell (2006:18-19)

[Broadwell_21-26_2006-10] Broadwell (2006:21-26)

[Broadwell18-21_2006-11] Broadwell (2006:18-21)

[Broadwell125_2006-12] Broadwell (2006:125)

[Broadwell60-62_2006-13] Broadwell (2006:60-62)

[Broadwell124-125_2006-14] Broadwell (2006:124-125)

[Broadwell26-27_2006-15] 15.0 ^15.1 ^15.2 ^15.3 Broadwell (2006:26-27)

[Broadwell130_2006-16] Broadwell (2006:130)

[Broadwell219_2006-17] Broadwell (2006:219)

[Broadwell16_2006-18] Broadwell (2006:16)

[Broadwell26_2006-19] 19.0 ^19.1 ^19.2 Broadwell (2006:26)

[20] Broadwell (2006:137-140)

[21] Broadwell (2006:140-142)

[22] Broadwell (2006:148-152)

[23] Broadwell (2006:98-99)

[24] Broadwell (2006:169-183)

[25] Broadwell (2006:184-190)

[26] Broadwell (2006:191-193)

[27] Broadwell (2006:161-168)

[28] Broadwell (2006:52-63)

[29] Broadwell (2006:64-92)

[30] Broadwell (2006:32)

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v t e Choctaw
Federally recognized tribes	Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Jena Band of Choctaw Indians Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Culture	Culture Freedmen Language Religion Bishinik periodical Fair Choctaw Tribal School System Four Mothers Society Green Corn Ceremony Pashofa Stomp dance
History	Nanih Waiya Chickasaw Campaign of 1736 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Trail of Tears American Civil War Choctaw Capitol Building Atoka Agreement Code talkers Mississippi Choctaw Indian Federation
Politics and law	List of Choctaw chiefs List of Choctaw treaties Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield

v t e Languages of Oklahoma
Indigenous	Alabama* Arapaho Caddo Cayuga Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chiwere (Iowa and Otoe) Choctaw Comanche Delaware Hitchiti-Mikasuki Kansa Koasati Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache Mesquakie (Fox, Kickapoo, and Sauk) Muscogee Osage Ottawa Pawnee Plains Apache Ponca Potawatomi Quapaw Seneca Shawnee Tonkawa Wichita Wyandot Yuchi
Sign languages	American Sign Language Black American Sign Language Plains Sign Talk
Non-Indigenous	English German Spanish Vietnamese
Italics indicate extinct languages * indicates extinct language in Oklahoma but still spoken elsewhere

Choctaw
Chahta'
Native to	United States
Region	Southeastern Oklahoma and east central Mississippi, and into Louisiana and Tennessee
Ethnicity	Choctaw ^[1]
Native speakers	10,400 and decreasing (2010 census)^[1]
Language family	Muskogean Western Choctaw
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`cho`
ISO 639-3	`cho`
Glottolog	`choc1276`^[2]
Distribution of Native American languages in Oklahoma
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