Yuchi > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Yuchi
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Uchean; Euchee
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
50 (2000 census). US Census (2000) counts those who use the language in the home. Ethnic population: 1,500 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
5
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
11
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
yuc
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
North American Language Isolate; North American Isolates; North American Language Isolates (nais)
Brief Description:
"Yuchi (Euchee) is an isolate, possibly distantly related to the Siouan languages. Originally an independent tribe located in central Tennessee, the Yuchis have been politically associated with the Muscogee Creeks since the early nineteenth century and most of the 1,500 members of the group live among the Creeks in northeastern Oklahoma, near Sapulpa, Hectorsville, and Bristow. The language is still spoken fluently by five to seven elderly people, only one younger than 75." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Yuchi
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