Many places throughout Alabama take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes.
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages.
The primary Native American peoples present in Alabama during historical times included the Alibamu, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Koasati, and the lower and upper Muscogee (Creeks).
[1] With the exception of the Cherokee, all of the historical Alabama tribes speak Muskogean languages.
There are competing classification systems, but the traditionally accepted usage divides the dialects into Eastern Muskogean (Alibamu, Koasatia, and Muscogee) and Western Muskogean (Chickasaw and Choctaw).