Chitimacha language
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Louisiana
Chitimacha is an extinct language that was spoken in southern Louisiana. Although there are a few hundred members of the Chitimacha tribe, with its reservation at Charenton, Louisiana, the language is no longer spoken. The Chitimacha people lived along Bayou Teche at the time of their first encounter with the French in the 1600's; the tribe was then composed of about twenty-six hundred people, scattered along bayous in several villages. Eventually French replaced their native language, and in the 1930's, when Morris Swadesh studied the language, there were only two speakers left.
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