Until the 19th century, the Choctaws had only a spoken language and no written one. A Christian missionary helped the Indians develop a written language and ultimately a dictionary in 1912. Choctaw font and symbols are different than English. The Mississippi Band has a free, downloadable Choctaw font for computers.
Through One-Net, the Choctaw Nation offers free, online classes in reading and writing the Choctaw language. The course teaches the alphabet, basic language rules, common phrases and pronunciation through easy-to-read lessons and power-point slides. Universities and high schools in Oklahoma, Texas, California and Arkansas teach classes in person.
This non-profit organization offers free learning resources for almost 800 American Indian languages. It groups individual languages into family groups. Choctaw is a member of the Muskogean language family. Resources include picture dictionaries, body parts, colors, numbers, pronunciation, prayers, animal guides and audio lessons.
The Rosetta Project of the Long Now Foundation has an online audio and text collection of over 300 languages, including Choctaw. Full Choctaw texts include the Choctaw Language, Biblical Translation, Syntax, Phonology, Orthography and Numbers. All books are available to read free online.