Woccon language

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The Woccon language is an extinct Indigenous language of the Siouan family once spoken in what is now North Carolina.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Siouan language
extinct language
associatedWithTribe Woccon tribe NERFINISHED
attestedBy John Lawson NERFINISHED
category Extinct languages of North America
Languages of North Carolina
Siouan languages NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Catawba language NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
degreeOfDocumentation poorly documented
documentedIn John Lawson’s 1709 vocabulary list NERFINISHED
endonymStatus unknown
ethnicGroup Woccon people NERFINISHED
extinction 18th century
glottocode wocc1238
glottologName Woccon NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticDataType wordlist
hasPhylum Macro-Siouan (proposed) NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 xwc
languageBranch Eastern Siouan NERFINISHED
languageFamily Siouan language family NERFINISHED
numberOfRecordedWords about 140
primarySourcesLocation colonial-era English accounts GENERATED
region North Carolina NERFINISHED
spokenInHistoricalPeriod 17th century
early 18th century
status extinct
subfamily Catawban
writingSystem Latin script (in documentation)

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Catawba language relatedTo Woccon language