Woccon language

Woccon
Waccamaw
Native to	United States
Region	North Carolina
Ethnicity	Waccamaw Siouan
Extinct	early 18th century
Language family	Siouan Eastern Woccon
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

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Woccon". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Siouan languages

Western

Missouri River

Crow
Hidatsa

Mandan

Mandan

Mississippi Valley

Dakotan	Assiniboine Sioux Dakota Lakota Stoney

Chiwere–Winnebago	Chiwere Winnebago

Dhegihan	Kansa–Osage Omaha–Ponca Quapaw

Unclassified	Michigamea

Ohio Valley

Virginia Siouan	Moneton Tutelo-Saponi

Mississippi Siouan	Biloxi Ofo

Eastern

Catawban	Catawba Woccon

Italics indicate extinct languages

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