A language isolate of the Yuchi people of Oklahoma — once spoken across the southeastern United States, now critically endangered.
Where it’s spoken
Yuchi (Euchee) was historically spoken in what is now eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and the western Carolinas. The Yuchi people were forced west to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1830s alongside the Muscogee Creek. Today only a few elderly first-language speakers remain; intensive revitalisation has trained a small number of younger learners.
What it sounds like
Yuchi is a language isolate — no demonstrated relationship to any other family. It has an unusually rich nasal vowel system and a noun classification system that distinguishes Yuchi people from non-Yuchi people grammatically.
How it’s written
Multiple competing orthographies use the Latin alphabet with diacritics or digraphs for nasal vowels and tones. No traditional indigenous script.
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Yuchi starts with Y and ends with I. Browse other languages along the same letter.
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