Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, and central New York state
Ethnicity
1,600 Onondaga people (2007)[1]
Native speakers
40 (2007)[1] increasing numbers since 2010[2]
Language family
Iroquoian
Northern
Lake Iroquoian
Five Nations
Onondaga
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ono
Glottolog
onon1246
ELP
Onondaga
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Onondaga language (Onoñdaʼgegáʼ nigaweñoʼdeñʼ, IPA:[onũdaʔɡeɡáʔniɡawẽnoʔdẽʔ], literally "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 (Haudenosaunee).
This language is spoken in the United States and Canada, primarily on the reservation in central New York State and near Brantford, Ontario.
Onondagalanguage (Onoñdaʼgegáʼ nigaweñoʼdeñʼ, IPA: [onũdaʔɡeɡáʔ niɡawẽnoʔdẽʔ], literally "Onondaga is our language") is the language of the Onondaga...
The Onondaga people (Onontaerrhonon, Onondaga: Onoñda’gegá’’, "People of the Hills") are one of the five original nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)...
nations of the Iroquois League Onondaga (village), Onondaga settlement and traditional Iroquois capital OnondagalanguageOnondaga Limestone, a layer of dense...
There are also more language accounts of slaves being compared to animals (mostly dogs) in Oneida and Onondagalanguage. This language serves as a proof...
Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks...
Many of these early games absorbed the physical aggression of what the Onondaga called dehuntshigwa'es (lacrosse). Shinny was played on the St. Lawrence...
creator' in Onondaga), blessed with healing powers in response to his love of living things, encountered a stranger, referred to in Onondaga as Ethiso:da'...
The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolomites of Devonian age that forms geographic features in some areas in which it outcrops; in...
grouping Spirit Monster Other name(s) Big Head Mohawk: Kanontsistóntie's Onondaga: Ganoñ’waeñ•dye’s Kunenhrayenhnenh Kwennenhrayenhnen Konearaunehneh Unenhrayenhnenh...
located within the park is a bronze cylindrical sculpture written in Onondagalanguage and "transcribed from the ancient oral tradition of the five Iroquois...
of the Seneca nation of the North American Iroquois confederation. Part Onondaga and part Seneca, he resided within the reserve of the Six Nations of the...
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
HMCS Onondaga (S73) is an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Built in the mid-1960s, Onondaga operated...
"Assorodus" ("Silvery Waters") by pre-colonial indigenous peoples of the Onondaga Nation. Around 1794, Europeans began to settle in what's today Sodus Point...
The Onondaga Council governs the Onondaga Nation, a sovereign nation, one of six nations of the Iroquois people, that lives on a portion of its ancestral...
is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
in French. The Native American tribes used various names: in the Onondagalanguage it was called dehuntshigwa'es ("they bump hips" or "men hit a rounded...
a Haudenosaunee professional lacrosse player from the Hawk Clan of the Onondaga Confederacy of the Six Nations of the Grand River. His native name is 'Deyhahsanoondey'...
called "Tiohujodha" by the Moravian Indians. At one time it was called the Onondaga, as leading to that town, and Teyoghagoga was another early form. It rises...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
Tadodaho was a Native American Hoyenah (sachem) of the Onondaga nation before the Deganawidah and Hiawatha formed the Iroquois League. According to oral...
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America...
Mohawk (/ˈmoʊhɔːk/; Kanienʼkéha, "[language] of the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation...
English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; the de facto common language used in government...
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