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Name: Huron-Wyandot Alternate Names: Huron; Wyandot; Wendat; Wyendat; Wyandotte; Wendot; Huron-Petun Once Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 24. US Census (2000) counts those who use it in the home. Ethnic population: 3,200 (1997 B. Pearson) (Ethnologue) Code: wya Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Iroquoian Parent Subgroup: Lake Iroquoian; Proto-Lake Iroquoian (exap) Brief Description: "Huron-Wyandot (Wendat) was a Northern Iroquoian language that was originally spoken in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, near Lake Huron. A variety of this language was the lingua franca of the Huron Confederacy in the seventeenth century and was extensively documented by Jesuit missionaries. After the Huron Confederacy was destroyed by the Iroquois around 1650 in a war over control of the fur trade, some Hurons settled at Lorette, near Quebec City, where their French-speaking descendants still live, while others moved to Ohio. From there one group moved to Amherstburg, south of Windsor, Ontario, and the rest were removed to Kansas and later Oklahoma. They are now organised at the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, with about 3,600 members. The Oklahoma group was the last to retain its language, but the language was gone by around 1980. Huron was documented by French missionaries working in Canada in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Wyandot by Marius Barbeau in Ontario and Oklahoma in the early twentieth century." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 15

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Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed