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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Woccon language canonical 1

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

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Catawba language relatedTo Woccon language