Catawba
[aka Catawaba]Classification: Siouan
·awakening
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"The Catawba language has been restored and is taught in our children’s programs. We also teach classes to adults on an 'as needed' basis."
Language metadata
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Catawaba |
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Siouan, Catawban |
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ISO 639-3 |
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chc |
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Language information by source
Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
- PLACES
- USA
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Catawba Nation of York County, South Carolina
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
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Awakening
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500
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"No known L1 speakers, but emerging L2 speakers." "The last speaker died before 1960."
- DATE OF INFO
- 1977 (for ethnic population figures)
- MORE ON VITALITY
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"Catawba Nation’s Cultural Preservation Program is engaged in a language revitalization effort (Golla 2007)."
- PLACES
- USA
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Near Rock Hill, South Carolina."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
- PLACES
- USA
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
South Carolina
Information from: “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge
- MORE ON VITALITY
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"Catawba is well documented, and the Catawba Nation’s Cultural Preservation Program is engaged in a vigorous language revitalization effort."