Editing Muscogee language (section)

=== Person marking ===
Muscogee has three series of person markers on verbs.<ref name=":1">Martin, Jack B., and Margaret McKane Mauldin. 2001. Creek. ''Facts about the World’s Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present''. Jane Garry and Carl Rubino, eds., 173–176. New York / Dublin: H. W. Wilson.</ref> The agent (type I) person markers generally show the person and number of subjects that perform an action on purpose. Agent person markers are suffixed to the verb root.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Agent person markers
| -i
|Homp'''i'''s.
|/homp-éy-s/
|I am eating.
|-
| -etsk
|Homp'''etsk'''es.
|/homp-íck-is/
|You are eating.
|-
|(no mark)
|Hompes.
|/homp-ís/
|He/she/it is eating..
|-
| -ē
|Homp'''ē'''s.
|/homp-í:-s/
|We are eating.
|-
| -atsk
|Homp'''atsk'''es.
|/homp-á:ck-is/
|You all are eating.
|}
The patient (type II) person markers often indicate the person and number of direct objects.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Patient person markers
| cv-
|'''Cv'''hēces.
|/ca-hî:c-is/
|He/she/it sees me.
|-
| ce-
|'''Ce'''hēces.
|/ci-hî:c-is/
|He/she/it sees you.
|-
|(no mark)
|Hēces.
|/hî:c-is/
|He/she/it sees him/her.
|-
| pu-
|'''Pu'''hēces.
|/po-hî:c-is/
|He/she/it sees us.
|}
A third series of dative (type D) person markers generally shows the person and number of the indirect object.<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable"
|+Dative person markers
| vm
|'''Vm''' opunayes.
|/am-ópona:y-ís/
|He/she is talking to me.
|-
| cem
|'''Cem''' opunayes.
|/cim-ópona:y-ís/
|He/she is talking to you.
|-
|em
|'''Em''' opunayes.
|/im-ópona:y-ís/
|He/she is talking to him/her.
|-
| pum
|'''Pum''' opunayes.
|/pom-ópona:y-ís/
|He/she is talking to us.
|}