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Choctaw

A language of United States

ISO 639-3: cho

Population	11,400, decreasing. Ethnic population: 120,400 including 111,400 in Oklahoma (1998 Choctaw Language Department, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma).
Region	Southeast Oklahoma (McCurtain County), east central Mississippi. Some in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Language map	Southeastern United States of America
Dialects	Choctaw find Chickasaw [cic] unintelligible.
Classification	Muskogean, Western
Language use	Most children prefer English. Mainly older adults.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. NT: 1848.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	The Houma are 12,000 racially mixed descendants of a Choctaw subgroup in southern Louisiana who speak a dialect of Cajun French [frc], and no longer speak Choctaw.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BURQUEST, Donald A.; KEHLER, T. P., authors. 1977. Now the computer can learn Choctaw grammar.

SHALER, Dorothy, facilitator; DENSON, Charlie; HENRY, Inez, speakers. 2012. Choctaw hymn tunes DS-15-pres.

SHALER, Dorothy, recorder; BELL, Tony; FRASIER, Ida Mae; JACKSON, Prentiss; JOE, Henry, speakers. 2012. Choctaw Dance music DS-14-pres.

SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1974. Some Choctaw sentence structures.

Vernacular Publications

Katohmihǫ išpįsah?. 1978.