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Name:
Onondaga
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Onandaga; Onondoga
Spoken in:
USA, Canada
Number of speakers:
75 in Canada (1991 H. Dale Kinkade). Population total all countries: 90. Ethnic population: 18,173 (1997 H. Woodbury)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
10
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
90
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ono
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Iroquoian
Parent Subgroup:
Iroquois Proper; Five Nations Iroquois (lptd)
Brief Description:
"Onondaga is a Northern Iroquoian Language, spoken in upstate New York by the central tribe (the 'firekeepers') of the Iroquois Confederacy (Six Nations). Most modern Onondagas (about 1,600) live on a reservation in their old homeland, south of the city of Syracuse, but there is a smaller community on the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario. There are about a dozen elderly speakers of Onondaga in New York, the youngest in their 70s, and about 40 more are reported in Ontario." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Endangered
Map of Onondaga
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