Editing Chickasaw language (section)

==Classification==
Chickasaw, [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]] and [[Houma language|Houma]] form the Western branch of the [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean language family]]. The Chickasaw and Choctaw were once one tribe who similarly spoke the Muskogean languages.<ref name="The Chickasaw People">{{Cite web|url=https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/wc_hist/chksaw.php|title=The Chickasaw People|website=www.utm.edu|access-date=2017-02-10}}</ref> The Chickasaw language was widely spoken until 1970 but has since become an endangered language.<ref name="The Chickasaw People"/> Chickasaw is also related to [[Alabama language|Alabama]], [[Koasati language|Koasati]], [[Muscogee language|Mvskoke (Creek)]]-Seminole, Hitchiti and Mikasuki.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Official Site of the Chickasaw Nation {{!}} Language|url = https://www.chickasaw.net/our-nation/culture/language.aspx|website = www.chickasaw.net|access-date = 2015-08-29}}</ref>