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The 'Miami-Illinois language' was a Native American language formerly spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by several tribes and subtribes, among them the Illinois, Miami, Kaskaskia, Peoria, Wea, and Tamaroa. Later, its speakers were forcibly removed from that state, eventually settling in northeastern Oklahoma. The language was extensively documented in written materials for over 200 years.
Miami-Illinois was an Algic language of the Algonquian family. The language is currently considered "extinct" because there are no fluent native speakers of the language, but there has been a strong language reclamation program since the mid 1990s of the Miami dialect. Many Miami tribal members question the notion of whether "extinct" was the appropriate metaphor and instead use the term "sleeping" since the language was never irretrievably lost.

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★ Miami dictionary

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★ The Miami-Illinois Language, Costa, David J., , , University of Nebraska Press, 2003,