(5) For example, Old English vocabulary favors short mono- or disyllabic words, whereas the
Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic, meaning that they use words composed of many different morphemes.
The
Iroquoian languages provide examples of replication of a grammatical category, in this case coordinating conjunction.
The first, a language study developed in 1938 and carried out in 1939 and 1940, is recognized as instrumental in helping preserve Oneida and
Iroquoian languages. The second study, The Oneida Ethnological Study (WPA Project no.
All the songs are performed in
Iroquoian languages, with English translations included in the liner notes.
(6.) According to David Kanatawa'kon Maracle, songs sung in
Iroquoian languages, in the Longhouse and especially in the centuries-old (Christian) hymn singing tradition, are often marked by the fluid relationship between text and tune.
The various
Iroquoian languages employ a variety of coordinators and an historical survey of texts reveals that coordinators were grammaticized in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century when bilingualism with English or French was becoming common.
However, Cherokee and other
Iroquoian languages exhibit certain phonetic limitations.(1) The most overt and problematic factors are the absence of bilabial stops /p/ and /b/ and the noticeable lack of labio-dental fricatives /f/ and /v/.
