- Source: List of Alabama placenames of Native American origin
Many places throughout Alabama take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages. The primary Native American peoples present in Alabama during historical times included the Alibamu, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Koasati, and the lower and upper Muscogee (Creeks).
With the exception of the Cherokee, all of the historical Alabama tribes speak Muskogean languages. There are competing classification systems, but the traditionally accepted usage divides the dialects into Eastern Muskogean (Alibamu, Koasatia, and Muscogee) and Western Muskogean (Chickasaw and Choctaw). The Cherokee language belongs to the separate Iroquoian language family.
Listings
= State
=Alabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear").
Alabama River
= Counties
== Settlements
== Bodies of water
== Other
=Cheaha Mountain - derived from the Choctaw word chaha, meaning "high".
See also
List of place names in the United States of Native American origin
References
= Citations
== Sources
=Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat
- List of Alabama placenames of Native American origin
- List of place names of Native American origin in the United States
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- List of place names of French origin in the United States
- Waxahatchee Creek
- Escambia County, Alabama
- List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States
- List of place names of German origin in the United States
- Mobile, Alabama
- Choctaw County, Alabama
