This being said, there are increasingly more accessible resources for teaching, learning, and preserving this and many other Native American languages, as of the year 2021.

Chickasaw, Choctaw and Houma form the Western branch of the Muskogean language family.

Chickasaw towns and villages were structured to be densely populated as a wartime measure but encompassed larger areas when there was no conflict with enemies.

[3] There was a division and specialization in labor done by men who prepared the community for war, hunted for food, and made provisions for the defense of their communities while Chickasaw women were matriarchal leaders of their households who cared for crops, children, and estate matters.

[3] That is where they encountered European explorers and traders, having relationships with French, English and Spanish during the colonial years.

The United States considered the Chickasaw one of the Five Civilized Tribes, as they adopted numerous practices of European Americans.

[6] Children are no longer acquiring the language,[6] indicating Chickasaw has a notably low vitality.

[10] In a collaboration with Apple, Inc., the Chickasaw language keyboard layout is available in iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4 and macOS Ventura 13.3 and later to help users type with "special characters for pitch accent, nasal vowels and the glottal stop character.

Four levels of Chickasaw language classes are taught at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Ada, Ardmore, Norman, Purcell, Sulphur, and Tishomingo all host non-academic adult language classes.

[13] More recently, the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program has been working with Rosetta Stone and Ackerman McQueen, releasing a video series teaching learners how to speak Chickasaw with the Rosetta Stone Advanced Languages software.

The active series is in the table below: The third person lacks an affix and usually does not distinguish between singular and plural.

The first person plural has two forms: il- which is used before vowels and ii- which is used before consonants — thus, il-iyya "we go", ii-malli "we jump".

An example inflectional paradigm of the verb malli "to jump" is below (with the pronominal affixes underlined): The stative series (II) is below.

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