Abstract
1. Apalachee is an extinct language of Florida. It has long been known to belong to the Muskogean family of languages, but, so far as I am aware, it has never been assigned to its proper position within the family on the basis of strict phonological considerations. Handbook of American Indians,1 under the heading Apalachee, it is stated that these Indians are linguistically more nearly related to the Choctaw than to the Creeks. the same source, under the heading Muskogian, Apalachee is put in the same subgroup with Hitchiti, probably on the strength of Gatschet's opinion, viz., The Hitchiti, Mikasuki, and Apalachi languages form a dialectric group distinct from Creek and the western dialects [by which he means Choctaw and Chickasaw], and the people speaking them must once have had a common origin.2 Swanton, on the other hand, holds a different opinion, which he states in speaking of the Apalachicola, a town of the Creek Confederacy not to be confused with Apalachee: In recent times Apalachicola has always been classed by the Creeks as a Hitchiti-speaking town, while the fragment of Apalachee that has come down to us
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