Catawban languages
Encyclopedia
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 Siouan–Catawban family.
Both are now extinct
(†). They were not closely related.
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...
in east North America. The Catawban family is a branch of the larger Siouan Siouan–Catawban family.
Family division
The Catawban family consists of two languages:- CatawbaCatawba languageCatawba is one of two Eastern Siouan languages of the eastern US, which together with the Western Siouan languages formed the Siouan language family....
(†) - WocconWoccon languageWoccon was one of two Catawban Eastern Siouan languages of the eastern US, which together with the Western Siouan languages formed the Siouan language family. It is attested only in a vocabulary of 143 words printed in 1709....
(†)
Both are now extinct
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers., or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication...
(†). They were not closely related.