indicated with an acute accent (´), low tone with a grave accent (`), and falling tone with an acute accent followed by a grave accent. A long vowel with falling tone is represented by two accented vowel letters (áà). When the vowel is short, the grave accent is placed over the next consonant (áǹ): An epenthetic [ə] vowel appears in kl, kw and kn clusters in careful speech. Vocabulary Verbs Numerals Kinship terms Notes References Derrick-Mescua, Mary Tyler. A phonology and morphology of Mikasuki. Ph.D thesis, University of Florida. 1980. West, J. & Smith, N. A Guide to the Miccosukee Language, Miami: Miccosukee Corporation 1978. External links A Global Linguistic Database: Mikasuki Miccosukee place names Mikasuki, Omniglot Miccosukee Indian Language (Mikasuki, Hitchiti) OLAC resources in and about the Mikasuki language Agglutinative languages Muskogean languages Indigenous languages of the North American Southeast Tonal languages Seminole culture Indigenous languages of Oklahoma