Mitchigamea language
{{Short description|Extinct indigenous language of North America}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Michigamea
| nativename = {{lang|cmm|Mihshikamiia}}
| states = United States
| region = Arkansas
| ethnicity = Mitchigamea
| extinct = 18th century?
| familycolor = American
| fam1 = Siouan
| fam2 = Western Siouan
| fam3 = Mississippi Valley Siouan
| fam4 = (unclassified)
| iso3 = cmm
| linglist = cmm
| glotto = none
| altname = Mitchigamea
}}
Mitchigamea or Michigamea is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Mitchigamea people in Arkansas.
In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet used a Mitchigamea man, who only spoke Illinois poorly, as a translator between the Illinois-speaking French, and the Siouan-speaking Quapaw.{{cite web|url=http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/relations_59.html|title=Front Page|date=11 August 2014|website=puffin.creighton.edu|accessdate=18 May 2017}} Jean Bernard Bossu provided two sentences from the mid-18th century which, according to John Koontz, indicate that Michigamea was a Siouan language of the Mississippi Valley branch.Koontz, John E. 1995. Michigamea as a Siouan language. Paper presented at the 15th annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference, University of New Mexico - Albuquerque.
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Category:Languages extinct in the 18th century
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