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. Image File history File links Catawban_langs. ... Image File history File links Catawban_langs. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Pre-contact distribution of the Siouan languages The Siouan (a. ...
All Catawban languages are now extinct. Gordon (2005) reports that the last native speaker of Catawba died before 1960. An effort is now being made to revive the Catawba language. Pre-contact distribution of the Catawba The Catawba (also known as Issa or Esaw) are a tribe of Native Americans, once considered one of the most powerful eastern Siouan tribes, that traditionally lived in the Southeast United States, along the border between North and South Carolina. ... An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...
Siouan-Catawban is a language family of North America. ... Pre-contact distribution of the Catawba The Catawba (also known as Issa or Esaw) are a tribe of Native Americans, once considered one of the most powerful eastern Siouan tribes, that traditionally lived in the Southeast United States, along the border between North and South Carolina. ...
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Catawba (Ethnologue)
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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