The Catawban, or Eastern Siouan, languages form a small language family in east North America. The Catawban family is a branch of the larger Siouan a.k.a. Siouan–Catawban family.

Catawban
Eastern Siouan
Geographic distribution	The Carolinas
Linguistic classification	Siouan Catawban
Subdivisions	Catawba † Woccon †
Linguasphere	64-AB
Glottolog	cata1285
Pre-contact distribution of the Catawban languages

Family division

The Catawban family consists of two languages:

1. Catawba (†) – spoken by the Catawba people
2. Woccon (†) – spoken by the Waccamaw people

Both are now extinct. They were not closely related.

References

• Parks, Douglas R.; & Rankin, Robert L. (2001). The Siouan languages. In R. J. DeMallie (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 1, pp. 94–114). W. C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-050400-7.