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Lawson traveled from Charleston to Tuscarora and commented on their speech
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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In 1700-1701 John Lawson traveled northeastward from Charleston to the Tuscarora country, thus passing through the very heart of the eastern Siouan territory. He visited and described both the Santee and Sewee and hence must have had opportunities to hear their speech. It is significant, therefore, that he states of the languages of all the people through whose territories he had passed that none of them had the sounds / or I.1 This is true of Catawba, the sole representative of the Siouan languages of the east from which we have much material. (Swanton)
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