This is the language family I study! Muskogean languages are really cool partly because they're localized entirely within the Southeast and its speakers are the direct descendants of the ancient mound-building Mississippian culture that built ancient sites all across the landscape. Other cool features of Muskogean languages include a complex ablaut system where the core vowels of verbs are inflected to convey meaning, like placing /n/ to the penultimate syllable to show an action is durative or a new syllable being inserted that copies the syllable preceding it but nasalizes it to show repetitive action. Muskogean languages are also one of the few languages native to the Americas that contain /f/ as a distinct phoneme, as it's otherwise very rare. Mvto!
Can you give the IPA transcription for one of the those words with an inflected core vowel? The concept sounds very interesting to me. Also, how is inflection different from tone (tones like in Cantonese for example)?
apalachee's number is very interesting. especially from an austronesian speakers perspective. 2 is tolo and 3 is tusa. while in proto austronesian 2 is dusa and 3 is telu
As someone who moved to the American Southeast, I really like the Muskogean languages. I became curious about them because so many places in the southeast retain their native names, like Talladega, Okeechobee, Narcoosee, etc. Knowing these names makes the Muskogean languages feel intriguing yet oddly familiar. I really hope these languages get the full revival and long future ahead of them that they deserve.
Thanks for making this neat and brief video introducing the Muskogean language family! Totally surprised that I would see a video breaking down the makeup of the family and where I got to listen to the languages actually spoken one day. Fun fact: the family has been known to display some highly intriguing and complex morphology in terms of case and number. Last year, in my morphology class, I did my final paper on an interesting phenomenon called subtractive morphology particularly in plural verbs in Muskogean. I had a lot of fun taking the course!!!
An honorable mention should be Mobilian Jargon language, which was a mix of Choctaw, Chikasaw, and a few other Muskogean languages in the area. It was used as a trade language between the different tribes so they could all speak to each other!
You guys have done a video on the itnek language og the philippines, and itnek is ussually put in thesame category as Isnag, itnek being a variety of Isnag from northern abra, in Apayao Isnag is sepparated into imallod isnag and imandaya isnag, i would love to see videos with imallod isnag since I am a native speaker Personally I can understand Malaweg (you guys have a video on this as well) better than Itnek, even if I am an Isnag speaker and Itnek is ussually placed under isnag
