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Name: Koasati Alternate Names: Coushatta; Koasati (Louisiane) (in French); Koasati (Texas) (in French); Koasati (Texas) (in Spanish); Koasáti Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 200 (2000 SIL), decreasing. Ethnic population: 224 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 900 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 200 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: cku Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Muskogean (Muskhogean) Parent Subgroup: Eastern Muskogean; Eastern (emsk) Brief Description: "Koasati (Coushatta) is an Eastern Muskogean language, closely related to Alabama. It was spoken in the sixteenth century in the upper Tennessee Valley, and now is spoken by 300 to 400 members of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (living near Elton, in Allen Parish), and by up to 100 residents of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation near Livingston, Texas, where Alabama is the dominant language; some speakers of Alabama have also learned to speak Koasati. There are speakers of all ages in the Louisiana community, which is culturally quite conservative. Until recently there were also a few elderly speakers of Koasati among the 900 enrolled members of he Alabama-Quassarte Tribe." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered