Language
| Pedee | |
|---|---|
| Region | Carolina |
| Extinct | 19th century |
| Language family | unclassified |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Linguist List | 172 |
Little is known about what kind of language the historic Pee Dee spoke. Based on a theory proposed by James Mooney in his 1894 Siouan Tribes of the East, and reinforced by John R. Swanton in his 1936 essay "Early History of the Eastern Siouan Tribes", the Pee Dee are surmised to have spoken a Siouan language, specifically an "Eastern" or "Southeastern" Siouan language. However, Mooney's theory had no linguistic evidence and tenuous ethnohistoric evidence to support it. Most of the tribes in the Low Country, their place of origin, spoke forms of the Algonquian languages.
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