Oneida language
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| Oneida Onʌyotaʔa:ka |
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| Spoken in: | Canada, United States | |
| Region: | Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and central New York and around Green Bay, Wisconsin | |
| Total speakers: | 160 - 514 | |
| Language family: | Iroquoian Northern Iroquoian Proto-Lake Iroquoian Iroquois Proper Mohawk-Oneida Oneida |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | iro | |
| ISO 639-3: | one | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Oneida is an Iroquoian language spoken primarily by the Oneida people in the U.S. states of New York and Wisconsin, and the Canadian province of Ontario. There are only an estimated 160 native speakers left, despite attempts to reinvigorate the language. The number of speakers in the Green Bay area who learned the language as infants may be as low as six
As of 1994 the majority of Oneida speakers lived in Canada.[1]
[edit] Phonology
| Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | n | ||||
| Plosive | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| Affricate | ts | ||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w |
There are four oral vowels, /i e o a/, and two nasal vowels, /ũ/ (written <u>) and /ə̃/ (written <ʌ>). Vowel length is indicated with a following colon, <:>.
[edit] References
- Michelson, Karin E. and Doxtator, Mercy A. Oneida-English / English-Oneida dictionary. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002. 1200 pages. ISBN 0-8020-3590-6
- ^ Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of World Languages (New York: Routelege, 1994) p. 7
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