Editing Muscogee language (section)

==Dialects==
The three main dialects of Muscogee are Muscogee proper (used in the Muscogee Nation), Oklahoma Seminole Muscogee, and Florida Seminole Muscogee.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Martin |first=Jack B. |title=A dictionary of Creek/Muskogee: with notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole dialect of Creek |last2=Mauldin |first2=Margaret MacKane |date=2000 |publisher=Univ. of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-8302-2 |edition=1. Nebraska paperback print |series=Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians |location=Lincoln, Neb}}</ref> The most distinct dialect of the language is said to be that of the Florida Seminole, which is described as "rapid", "staccato" and "dental", with more loan words from Spanish and Mikasuki as opposed to English. Florida Seminole Muscogee is the most endangered variety of the Muscogee language.
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!Muscogee proper
!Oklahoma Seminole
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[[Claudio Saunt]], writing about the language of the later 18th century, said that there were different feminine and masculine versions, which he also calls dialects, of the Muscogee language. Males "attach[ed] distinct endings to verbs", while females "accent[ed] different syllables". These forms, mentioned in the first (1860) grammar of the Muscogee language, persisted in the [[Hitchiti#Language|Hichiti]], Muscogee proper, and [[Koasati language|Koasati]] languages at least into the first half of the 20th century.<ref name="Saunt">{{cite book |last=Saunt |first=Claudio |title=A New Order of Things. Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1810 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0521660432}}</ref>{{rp|141}}