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Mesoamerican and South American Words found in the Native Languages of the Southeastern United State

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Most Southeastern languages are agglutinative. This means that verbal descriptions of new objects or concepts were created by joining two or more words together. The "Creek" languages are especially complex because their ancestors would often join words from several, completely different languages to make a new word. This is because their cultural history, very early on, involved blending distinct ethnic groups together.