Apalachee | |
States: | United States |
Region: | Florida |
Ethnicity: | Apalachee |
Extinct: | early 18th century |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Muskogean |
Fam2: | Eastern |
Iso3: | xap |
Glotto: | apal1237 |
Glottorefname: | Apalachee |
Linglist: | xap |
Apalachee was a Muskogean language of Florida. It was closely related to Koasati and Alabama.[1]
The language is known primarily from one document, a letter written in 1688 to Charles II of Spain. Geoffrey Kimball has produced a grammatical sketch[2] and a vocabulary of the language[3] based on the contents of the letter.
Apalachee was found to belong to the same branch of the Muskogean family as Koasati, Alabama, and Hitchiti.[4]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
Plosive | plain | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ (c, g) | ||
voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
Fricative | plain | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
lateral | pronounced as /ink/ (lz) | ||||||
Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ (gu, w) | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ (y) |
Front | Central | Back | ||
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Close | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
Close-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
Open | pronounced as /ink/ |