Catawban languages
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 a.k.a. Siouan–Catawban family.
| Catawban | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Siouan | |
| Geographic distribution | The Carolinas |
| Linguistic classification | Siouan
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Linguasphere | 64-AB |
| Glottolog | cata1285[1] |
 Pre-contact distribution of the Catawban languages | |
Family division
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.
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Catawban". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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