Editing Alabama language (section)

{{Expand Portuguese|Língua alabama|date=March 2025}}
{{Short description|Muskogean language spoken in Texas, US}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Alabama
| nativename = {{lang|akz|Albaamo innaaɬiilka}}
| states = [[United States]]
| region = Currently in [[Texas]], Formerly in [[Oklahoma]] and [[Alabama]]
| ethnicity = [[Alabama people|Alabama]]
| speakers = approx. 370<!--this looks like half the combined number of Alabama+Koasati, not Alabama alone-->
| date = 2015 census
| ref = e21
| familycolor = American
| fam1 = [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean]]
| fam2 = Eastern
| fam3 = Alabama–[[Koasati language|Koasati]]
| iso3 = akz
| glotto = alab1237
| glottorefname = Alabama
| image = Alabama-Coushatta Rez.jpg
| imagecaption = Sign on the [[Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation]] with phrase "On ti chuka" meaning "welcome"
| map2 = Lang Status 60-DE.svg
| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Alabama is classified as Definitely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
}}

'''Alabama''', also known as '''Alibamu,'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=akz |title=Ethnologue report for language code: akz |publisher=Ethnologue.com |access-date=2011-10-27}}</ref> ({{Langx|akz|Albaamo innaaɬiilka}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alabama Dictionary |url=http://www.lingtechcomm.unt.edu/~montler/alabama/dictionary/index.htm |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=www.lingtechcomm.unt.edu}}</ref> is a [[Native American languages|Native American language]], spoken by the [[Alabama-Coushatta]] tribe of [[Texas]].{{sfn|Hardy|2005|p=75}} It was once spoken by the [[Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town]] of Oklahoma, but there are no more Alabama speakers in Oklahoma.  It is a [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean language]], and is believed to have been related to the Muklasa and Tuskegee languages, which are no longer extant. Alabama is closely related to [[Koasati language|Koasati]] and [[Apalachee language|Apalachee]], and more distantly to other [[Muskogean languages]] like [[Hitchiti language|Hitchiti]], [[Chickasaw language|Chickasaw]] and [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]].