ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

North America · ISO 639-3 yuc · Glottocode yuch1247

Yuchi

Yuchi joins the atlas as a nearly extinct language isolate of the United States with a likely Latin-script assignment.

Language family
Language isolate
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
nearly extinct
Macroarea
North America
Source country codes
US
Reference point
35.750, -86.750

Open research question

How can community-authorised teaching, self-naming and documentation be made visible without overriding cultural authority?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.