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Seneca language

Seneca (in Seneca, Onödowága or Onötowáka) is the language of the Seneca people

Seneca nation

The Seneca are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas people native to North America. They are the westernmost nation within the Six Nations or Iroquois....
, one of the Six Nations

Six Nations

Six Nations may refer to:* Iroquois Confederacy, a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations, later six...
of the Iroquois

Iroquois

The Iroquois Confederacy is a group of First Nations/Native Americans in the United States that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk nation, the Oneida tribe, the Onondaga , the Cayuga nation, and the Seneca nation....
League. About 10,000 Seneca live in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
and Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, primarily on reservations in western New York state, with others living in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
and near Brantford

Brantford, Ontario

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in south-western Ontario, Canada. This single-tier municipality is part of Brant County, Ontario....
, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
.

e are several methods to write the Seneca Language and variations of dialect between territories and regions.

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Seneca (in Seneca, Onödowága or Onötowáka) is the language of the Seneca people

Seneca nation

The Seneca are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas people native to North America. They are the westernmost nation within the Six Nations or Iroquois....
, one of the Six Nations

Six Nations

Six Nations may refer to:* Iroquois Confederacy, a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations, later six...
of the Iroquois

Iroquois

United States

Canada

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
and near Brantford

Brantford, Ontario

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in south-western Ontario, Canada. This single-tier municipality is part of Brant County, Ontario....
, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
.

Phonology

There are several methods to write the Seneca Language and variations of dialect between territories and regions. The orthography described here is the one used by the Seneca Bilingual Education Project.

Consonants

Seneca has three stop

Stop consonant

A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. The terms plosive and stop are usually used interchangeably, but they are not perfect synonyms....
s, /t/, /k/, and . /t/ and /k/ become voiced ( and ) before vowels or approximants.

	Dental Dental consonant In linguistics, a dental consonant or dental is a consonant that is articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as , , , and in some languages.... & Alveolar Alveolar consonant Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the Dental alveolus of the superior teeth....	Postalveolar Postalveolar consonant Postalveolar consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, placing them a bit further back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself, but not as far back as the hard palate .... & Palatal Palatal consonant Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate . Consonants with the tip of the tongue curled back against the palate are called retroflex consonant....	Velar Velar consonant Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the Soft palate)....	Glottal Glottal consonant Glottal consonants are consonants articulated with the glottis. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the so-called fricatives, to be transitional states of the glottis without a point of articulation as other consonants have; in fact, some do not consider them to be consonants at all....
Nasal Nasal consonant A nasal consonant is produced with a lowered soft palate in the mouth, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. The oral cavity still acts as a resonance chamber for the sound, but the air does not escape through the mouth as it is blocked by the tongue....
Stop Stop The word stop has several possible meanings in the English language, but most commonly means to cease moving.Additionally, stop, STOP, or stops may refer to:...
Affricate
Fricative
Approximant

Vowels

	Front		Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Close
Close-mid
Open-mid
Open

The nasal vowel

Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the Soft palate so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth. The term stands in opposition to the term "oral vowel" refers to an ordinary vowel without this nasalisation....
s, except <ä> which represents a near-open front unrounded vowel

Near-open front unrounded vowel

The near-open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
, are represented with diaereses

Diaeresis

In linguistics, diaeresis, or dieresis, is the pronunciation of two adjacent vowels in two separate syllables rather than as a diphthong, and it is also the name of the diacritic mark used to prompt the reader to pronounce adjacent vowels in this manner....
on top: <ë ö>. Depending on the phonetic environment, the nasal vowel <ë> may vary between [] and [], whereas <ö> may vary from [] to []. Long vowels are indicated with a following <:>, while stress

Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables....
is indicated with an acute accent

Acute accent

The acute accent is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet and Greek alphabet writing systems....
overtop.

External links

Matthew, Mark, & Luke Online

Seneca language

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Further reading

External links