Choctaw
Classification: Muskogean
·vulnerable
Classification: Muskogean
·vulnerable
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
The Mississippi Band of Choctaws has around 5,000 fluent speakers in seven small communities scattered throughout the state (the tribal headquarters is in Philadelphia, Mississippi). The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma counts at least 4,000 speakers among its more than 20,000 members, most of them middle-aged or elderly.
The use of Mississippi
Choctaw is vigorous at all ages, and many children are monolingual in Choctaw before attending
school.
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
120,400
The number for the ethnic population includes "111,400 in Oklahoma (1998 Choctaw Language Department, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma).
The number of speakers is decreasing.
Oklahoma
Southeast Oklahoma, McCurtain county; east central Mississippi; some in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
10,400 (2010 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 20,000 (Golla 2007).
Louisiana; Mississippi: east central; Oklahoma: McCurtain county; Tennessee.