He learned the Muscogee language, was adopted by the tribe and married Lavinia Downs, a Creek woman, with whom he had seven children.
In one dialect of the Muskogean languages, Chatta means stone; ho chee, marked or flowered.
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The Ais language has been tentatively assigned by some scholars to the Muskogean language family, and by others to the Arawakan language family.
However, a number of specialists on Muskogean languages, including Mary Haas and Pamela Munro Munro (1995) have regarded the hypothesis of a Gulf family of languages as promising; Haas thought the closest language to Muskogean would be Natchez, followed by Tunica, Atakapa, and, rather dubiously, Chitimacha.