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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: | 250 | |
| 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. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
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.
| Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
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| Stop | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| Affricate | ʦ | ||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||
| Nasal | n | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximant | j | w |
There are four oral vowels, /i e o a/, and two nasal vowels, /ũ/ (written ) and /ə̃/ (written <ʌ>). Vowel length is indicated with a following colon, <:>.
- 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
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