Editing Yuchi language (section)

===Contradictions in linguistic study and linguistic history===
The spoken Yuchi language has changed over time, in part due to relocation. In 1885 in an article in ''Science'', Swiss linguist [[Albert S. Gatschet]] wrote about various linguistic idiosyncrasies in Yuchi. He said that adjectives are not expressed with number, but nouns are, by the addition of the particle {{lang|yuc|ha}} (coming from the original term {{lang|yuc|wahále}} {{gloss|many}}), which made the word essentially plural. He also said that the language was no longer in an archaic state due to the lack of a "dual," and that the language had temporal and personal inflection.{{sfn|Gatschet|1885|p=253}} Gatschet did much field study and documentation regarding the language. Many of his original vocabulary lists can be found at the [[National Anthropological Archives]] or on their website.

In 1907, American [[Frank G. Speck]] published ''Ethnology of Yuchi Indians''. He said that Yuchi had only one dialect, that inflection was not a characteristic, and that there were no true plurals. These conclusions contradict Gatschet's published 1885 study. The two authors did agree on linguistic idiosyncrasy, and the case of the third person.{{sfn|Speck|1909}}

In 1997, the Euchee United Cultural Historical Educational Efforts (E.U.C.H.E.E.) published a work entitled ''Euchees: Past and Present'', providing more current information regarding the language. The organization claimed that there were two currently spoken dialects: the Duck Creek/Polecat and the Bigpond variations, which were spoken by Yuchi people of those communities in Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite book |title=Euchees: Past and Present |location=Sapulpa, OK |publisher=E.U.C.H.E.E. |year=1997}}</ref> This contradicts Speck's 1907 claim of one dialect.