Catawban languages
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| Catawban | |
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| Eastern Siouan | |
| Geographic distribution: |
central North America |
| Linguistic classification: | Siouan
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| Glottolog: | cata1285[1] |
Pre-contact distribution of the Catawban languages
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The Catawban, or Eastern Siouan, languages form a small language family in east North America. The Catawban family is a branch of the larger Siouan AKA Siouan–Catawban family.
Family division[edit]
The Catawban family consists of two languages:
- Catawba (†) - spoken by the Catawba people
- Woccon (†) - spoken by the Waccamaw Siouan people
Both are now extinct (†). They were not closely related.
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Catawban". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Parks, Douglas R.; & Rankin, Robert L. (2001). The Siouan languages. In R. J. DeMallie (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 1, pp. 94–114). W. C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-050400-7.
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