Croatan
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A Native American language once spoken by a coastal people in North Carolina, now extinct
- noun
- /kroʊˈætən/
- Specialized
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lengua croatan
- The Croatan language is no longer spoken, but some words survive in local place names.
Examples
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Linguists have reconstructed parts of the Croatan language from old colonial documents.
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Historians debate the origins and disappearance of the Croatan language and its speakers.
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The Croatan language was once spoken by the indigenous people.
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The Croatan language is now considered extinct.
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Linguists have reconstructed parts of the Croatan language from old colonial documents.
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The Croatan language is no longer spoken, but some words survive in local place names.
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The Croatan language is now considered extinct.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Croatan comes from the name that a Native American group used for themselves in a local Algonquian language, so the Croatan language is simply the language of that people.