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Catawban languages

Catawban languages

Infobox Language family
name=(Western) Siouan
region=central North America
familycolor=American
fam1=Siouan-Catawban
child1="Catawba"
child2="Woccon"


map_caption=Pre-contact distribution of the Catawban languages

The Catawban (also Eastern Siouan) languages form a small language family in east North America. The Catawban family is a sub-family of the larger Siouan-Catawban family.

Family division

The Catawban family consists of 2 languages:

# Catawba "(†)"
# Woccon "(†)"

All Catawban languages are now extinct. Gordon (2005) reports that the last native speaker of Catawba died before 1960, although Red Thunder Cloud, apparently an impostor, claimed to speak the language until he died in 1996. [ [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/goddard1.html The Identity of Red Thunder Cloud] , by Ives Goddard] An effort is now being made to revive the Catawba language.

ee also

* Siouan-Catawban languages
* Catawba (tribe)

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=chc Catawba] (Ethnologue)

References

Bibliography

* Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the world" (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
* 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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