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Name: Meherrin Type: Language Alternate Names: Nottoway; Nottaway-Meherrin Once Spoken in: USA Code: ntw Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Iroquoian Parent Subgroup: Tuscarora-Nottoway; Tuscarora-Nottaway (tuno) Brief Description: "Nottoway was a Northern Iroquoian language, closely related to Tuscarora. It was spoken in colonial times and into the nineteenth century along the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia, adjacent to the original territory of the Tuscaroras in North Carolina. It is attested only in two early-nineteenth century wordlists." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed