Onondaga Nation Language (Onoñdaʔgegáʔ nigaweñoʔdeñʔ (IPA /onũdaʔgegáʔ niɡawẽnoʔdẽʔ/), "Onondaga is our language") is the language of the Onondaga First Nation, one of the original five constituent tribes of the League of the Iroquois (Hodenosaunee).
This language is spoken in the United States and Canada, primarily on the reservation in central New York state, and near Brantford, Ontario.
This table shows the (consonant) phonemes that are found ...
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Onondaga Nation Language (Onoñdaʔgegáʔ nigaweñoʔdeñʔ (IPA /onũdaʔgegáʔ niɡawẽnoʔdẽʔ/), "Onondaga is our language") is the language of the Onondaga First Nation, one of the original five constituent tribes of the League of the Iroquois (Hodenosaunee).
This language is spoken in the United States and Canada, primarily on the reservation in central New York state, and near Brantford, Ontario.
This table shows the (consonant) phonemes that are found in Onondaga.
The two plosives, /t/, /k/ are allophonically voiced to [d] and [ɡ] before vowels and resonants and are spelled and in this case. There is considerable palatalization and affrication in the language.
Onondaga has five oral vowels, /i e o æ a/ (/æ/ is sometimes represented with ), and two nasal vowels, /ẽ/ and /ũ/. The nasal vowels, following the Iroquoianist tradition, are spelled with ogoneks in the scholarly literature and in Ontario ( and or ). In New York, they are represented with a following ( and )....
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