Catawba language

• /{{IPAlink|ʃ}}/ rarely occurs.

• [{{IPAlink|ɡ}}] occurs as an allophone of /{{IPAlink|k}}/.

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• Short vowel sounds /{{IPA|i, e, a, u}}/ can be heard as lax, ranging to [{{IPA|ɪ, ə~ɛ, ɑ, ʊ}}].

• /{{IPAlink|u}}/ can range to [{{IPAlink|o}}], and a short /{{IPAlink|a}}/ can range to a back vowel sound [{{IPAlink|ɑ}}].{{Cite book|title=Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr.|last=Rudes, Costa|first=Blair, David|year=2003|url=https://archive.org/details/essaysinalgonqui0000unse}}

A Catawba alphabet was created by the Catawba Language Project for the Catawba language, as part of a revitalization effort for the language and the creation of an app for it.{{Cite web |title=Catawba Language Project |url=https://catawbalanguage.org/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=catawbalanguage.org |language=en}}{{Explain|IPA values of each of these letters|date=April 2024}}

• The aspirated {{angbr|ʰ}} is used in the word: {{lang|chc|hawuʰ}} 'thank you'.
• The ⟨ʔ⟩ is written in different ways like ⟨ɂ⟩ and ⟨ˀ⟩ in some texts.
• The ⟨o⟩ and ⟨ǫ⟩ is some time occurs in words like example, "mǫ(hare)" meaning ask, "wǫ" meaning call, "mǫhee" meaning ice, and "sota" meaning Santee Tribe

Some Catawba lexicon is presented below.

Red Thunder Cloud, an impostor, born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, claimed to be Catawba and the last speaker of the Catawba language. He was promoted by anthropologist Frank Speck, who introduced West to the Catawba community. The Catawba told Speck that West was not Catawba, but Speck ignored them and continued to promote West and include him in his work, even recommending him as an expert to other anthropologists. (Speck is also the source of the theory that Catawba is a Siouan language; at one time he also insisted that the Cherokee language is Siouan.) At his death in 1996 it was revealed that West was neither Catawba nor even Native American, but had learned what he knew of the language from books, and from listening to the last known native speaker, Samuel Taylor Blue and his half-sister, Sally Gordon, when Speck brought him to the Catawba reservation.{{cite journal |last1=Goddard |first1=Ives |title=The Identity of Red Thunder Cloud |journal=The Newsletter -- Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |date=2000 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=7–10 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/88685/Red%20Thunder%20Cloud%20in%20SSILA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=5 April 2021 |language=en |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004192001/https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/88685/Red%20Thunder%20Cloud%20in%20SSILA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archivedate=4 October 2023}} This had apparently been enough to fool the non-Native ethnologists who wrote about him.

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• Ives Goddard, 2000. [https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/88685 "The Identity of Red Thunder Cloud"], Smithsonian Institution, reprinted from Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter. (accessed 2021-05-25)
• Catawba Texts [https://catawbalanguage.org/ "Catawba Language App"]

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