Tawasa language

Tawasa
Teouachi
Native to	United States
Region	eastern Alabama
Ethnicity	Tawasa people
Extinct	18th century
Language family	Timucuan? Tawasa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	tjm-taw
Glottolog	None
Pre-contact distribution of the Timucua language (Florida) and Tawasa
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Tawasa is an extinct Native American language. Ostensibly the language of the Tawasa people of what is now Alabama, it is known exclusively through a word list attributed to a Tawasa named Lamhatty, collected in 1707.

John Swanton studied the Lamhatty word list and identified the language as a Timucuan dialect, suggesting it was intermediary between Timucua and Muskogean. This opinion has been the subject of significant scholarly debate, with some such as Julian Granberry considering it a dialect of Timucua, others arguing it was a distinct language in the Timucua family, and yet others such as John Hann doubting that Lamhatty was a Tawasa at all. The language shows significant Alabama influence, including the Muskogean same-subject suffix -t.