Mitchigamea language

Mitchigamea or Michigamea is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Mitchigamea people in Arkansas.

Michigamea
Mitchigamea
Mihshikamiia
Native to	United States
Region	Arkansas
Ethnicity	Mitchigamea
Extinct	18th century?
Language family	Siouan Western Siouan Mississippi Valley Siouan (unclassified) Michigamea
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cmm
Linguist List	cmm
Glottolog	None

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.^[1] 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.^[2]