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Documenting Spoken Muskogee
Students and their Muskogee speaker partners standing in front of the Seminole Nation's Pumvhakv School. Image credit Jack Martin.

Students and their Muskogee speaker partners standing in front of the Seminole Nation’s Pumvhakv School. Image credit Jack Martin.

Muskogee is the traditional language of the Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. With fewer than 400 speakers, the language is endangered and documenting spoken Muskogee is an important component of current language revitalization efforts. An NEH Documenting Endangered Languages grant allowed students enrolled at Bacone College and the University of Oklahoma, along with linguist Jack Martin at William & Mary, to work with Muskogee elders to document their language in a video format.

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