英语词汇catawaba的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Catawaba. Catawaba, an oral language with no written form, lost its last speaker early in 1996 with the death of Red Thunder Cloud. It is said that Red Thunder Cloud prayed in Catawba every night and that with his final prayer the language died. According to Carl Teeter, emeritus professor of linguistics at Harvard University, “There were once about 500 [American Indi- an] languages in North America. About a hundred are still spoken and half of them are spoken by older people.” See also american indian language words; catawba grapes; sequoia.

词汇	catawaba
词源	Catawaba. Catawaba, an oral language with no written form, lost its last speaker early in 1996 with the death of Red Thunder Cloud. It is said that Red Thunder Cloud prayed in Catawba every night and that with his final prayer the language died. According to Carl Teeter, emeritus professor of linguistics at Harvard University, “There were once about 500 [American Indi- an] languages in North America. About a hundred are still spoken and half of them are spoken by older people.” See also american indian language words; catawba grapes; sequoia.
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