Catawba language

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Catawba
Ye Iswąˀ
Native to	United States
Region	South Carolina
Ethnicity	Ye Iswąre (Catawba)
Extinct	1959, with the death of Samuel Taylor Blue
Revival	1989[1]
Language family	Siouan Catawban (Eastern Siouan) Catawba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	chc
Glottolog	cata1286
ELP	Catawba
Linguasphere	64-ABA-ab
Pre-contact distribution of the Catawba language.
Catawba is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2]

Catawba (/kəˈtɔːbə/) is one of two Eastern Siouan languages of the eastern US, which together with the Western Siouan languages formed the Siouan language family.

The last native, fluent speaker of Catawba was Samuel Taylor Blue, who died in 1959.^[3] The Catawba people are now working to revitalize and preserve the Catawba language.