The Miami (Miami–Illinois: Myaamiaki) are a Native American nation originally speaking the Miami–Illinois language, one of the Algonquian languages. Among the peoples known as the Great Lakes tribes, they occupied territory that is now identified as north-central Indiana, southwest Michigan, and western Ohio.

Miami–Illinois is an Algonquian language within the larger Algic family. It is usually described as a Central Algonquian language, but that grouping denotes a geographic rather than genetic affiliation.

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Miami-Illinois is a polysynthetic language with complex verb morphology and fairly free word order. People: Though the Illinois and Miami Indians speak the same language and are historical allies, they have always considered themselves politically distinct.

Miami is also known as Illinois, Maumee, Miami-Illinois, Myaamia, Twatwa, Twightwee or Wea. It is the language of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, both of which are registered tribes.

The Miami is a Native American nation originally from northern Indiana and the adjacent areas of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. Initially speaking one of the Algonquian languages, the Miami had the reputation of being slow-spoken and polite with an inclination towards elaborate dress, especially among their chiefs.

The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana.

Miami-Illinois is a central Algonquian language and is most closely related to Sauk-Meskwaki (Fox)-Kickapoo, Ojibwe-Potawatomi-Ottawa and Shawnee. Miami-Illinois consists of two mutually intelligible dialects: Miami and Illinois.

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Miami-Illinois: myaamionki noošonke siipionki, meaning: "Miami homelands along the Neosho River) [2] is the only federally recognized Native American tribe of Miami Indians in the United States. [3]

"The Myaamia Center (formally the Myaamia Project), created in 2001, is a tribal initiative located within an academic environment to advance the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma’s language and cultural revitalization efforts. The Myaamia Center has two main purposes.