Iroquoian language

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Iroquoian language - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois

American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

Cherokee - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee

Cayuga - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cayuga

Mohawk - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk

Seneca - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca

Oneida - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Oneida

Onondaga - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga

Tuscarora - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Tuscarora

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Tuscarora, a North Iroquoian language spoken in southern Ontario in Canada, and parts of the US.

Conflicts and migration destroying languages: Unesco

This semester, Niagara University--located near the famous waterfall on New York's Canadian border--introduced a sequence of three classes in Tuscarora, a dialect of the Iroquoian language spoken by the nearby Tuscarora Nation.

Native languages make voices heard

It is related to the Iroquoian language. The Cherokee syllabary (a kind of alphabet) was invented by a Cherokee scholar and chief named Sequoyah (aka George Gist).

Fun facts: The Cherokee

They speak an Iroquoian language. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were.

The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Sam's song was not translated from Seneca or any other Iroquoian language; it was an original song text, written "when I was a young man", reported the then 23-year-old.

Song of transformation: performing Iroquoian identity through non- traditional song

university course in Mohawk, an Iroquoian language spoken in Ontario, Qu

TSI KARHAKTA: AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS

In the Iroquoian language family, most definitions for the Supreme Being have some sort of functional aspect to their meaning.