Woccon language

Woccon
Waccamaw
Native to United States
Region North Carolina
Ethnicity Waccamaw Siouan
Extinct early 18th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xwc
Linguist list
 xwc
Glottolog wocc1242[1]

Woccon was one of two Catawban AKA 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.

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Woccon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.