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Miami-Illinois (Myaamia IPA: [mjɑːmia]) is a Native American Algonquian language formerly spoken in the United States primarily in Illinois Missouri Indiana western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by the tribes of the Illinois Confederacy including the Kaskaskia Peoria Tamaroa Cahokia and Mitchigamea. Since the 1990s the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma has worked to revive it in a joint project with Miami University in Oxford Ohio.