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Name: Tutelo Type: Language Alternate Names: Saponi; Occaneechi; Saponey; Tutelo-Saponi-Monyton Once Spoken in: USA Code: tta Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Siouan-Catawban (Siouan) Parent Subgroup: Southeastern; Southeast Siouan Proper; Southeastern Siouan; Ohio Valley (sspr) Brief Description: "Tutelo was a Siouan language of the Ohio Valley (or Southeastern) branch that was spoken by the Tutelos, Saponis, and Occaneechis, who lived until the 1670s in the Roanoke-Staunton Valley of southern Virginia, and apparently also by the Monyton on the Kanawha River in West Virginia. After a series of conflicts and removals, the remnant of the Virginia groups moved north under the name Tutelo in the mid-eighteenth century and became affiliated with the Iroquois, eventually settling on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario with the Cayuga. The language is attested in the early eighteenth century by a vocabulary and some translated placenames. There were speakers until the 1980s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 24

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