Muskogee language
- noun
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idioma muskogui
- Preservation of the Muskogee language is important to maintaining cultural heritage.
Examples
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Students enrolled in the course are learning to speak the Muskogee language.
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Linguists have documented over 70% of the Muskogee language’s traditional vocabulary.
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The Muskogee language is rich in history.
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Many people are learning the Muskogee language today.
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Linguists have documented over 70% of the Muskogee language’s traditional vocabulary.
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Students enrolled in the course are learning to speak the Muskogee language.
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Preservation of the Muskogee language is important to maintaining cultural heritage.
Synonyms
A Native American language first spoken by people from Georgia and eastern Alabama
A language spoken by the Muscogee people
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase simply combines the proper name 'Muskogee' with the noun 'language' to mean 'the language spoken by the Muskogee people,' so the meaning is directly derivable from its parts. This NAME + language compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Muskogee language comes from the name Muskogee, the group of Native American people who speak it. That name may come from a word meaning 'people of the swamp' or 'people by the river', so Muskogee language simply means 'the language of the Muskogee people'.
