Channel Island Siouxan

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This not-yet-properly-named member of the League of Lost Languages is today spoken by a small number of people in the United Kingdom, for now in the Channel Islands but perhaps on the coast of the British mainland or on the Isles of Scilly. They are descended from a group of Native Americans from what is today North Carolina who emigrated wholesale across the Atlantic c. 1680-1700, followed by a second infusion approx. 1712-1713 under pressure from the Tuscaroras.

Their language, possibly identical to the Carolina Siouxan language known to us as Woccon, is still spoken today, though it shows massive lexical replacement and syntactic interference from English. Nevertheless it is the best-preserved and only viable member of this branch of the Siouxan family, and is thus of great interest to comparative linguists as well as to anthropologists.

There are currently about a hundred native speakers; it is traditionally written, in limited circumstances (parish records, hymnals, diaries, collections of folktales, and genealogical materials) in a vernacular English-based orthography.

Example sentence: Tey whiyaupany leenky whawausitty whashley eickelauspawda yeckeny iwisoo iseedy.' "It seems that this young beaver here was chewing up my big pine trees with his yellow teeth."