Sewee language
Unclassified Indigenous language of the Americas
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The Sewee language is a poorly attested and unclassified language once spoken by the Sewee, a historical Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands from present-day South Carolina.
| Sewee | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | South Carolina |
| Ethnicity | Sewee |
| Era | attested 1670 |
unclassified (Siouan?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
07z | |
| Glottolog | None |
Vocabulary
Some Sewee words were recorded in 1670[1] by Nicholas Carteret and William Owen.[2][3]: 1639
- appada ‘friend’ (?) (recorded by Carteret)
- hiddie dod ‘a word of great kindness among them’ (recorded by Owen)
- hiddeskeh ‘sickly’ (recorded by Owen)
- Hiddy doddy Comorado Angles Westoe Skorrye ‘English very good friends, Westoes are nought’ (recorded by Carteret) (Comorado is a Spanish loanword, from camarada 'comrade')[4]
Based on the geographical location of the Sewee people, Zamponi (2024) hypothesizes that the Sewee language may have been a Siouan language, although he could not find any evidence of Siouan morphemes in any attested Sewee words and phrases.[3]