Seneca language Totally Explained

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Seneca (in Seneca, Onödowága or Onötowáka) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. About 10,000 Seneca live in the United States and Canada, primarily on reservations in western New York state, with others living in Oklahoma and near Brantford, Ontario.

Phonology

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

Consonants

Seneca has three stops, /t/, /k/, and /ʔ/. /t/ and /k/ become voiced ([d] and [ɡ]) before vowels or approximants.

	Dental & Alveolar	Postalveolar & Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	n
Stop	t		k	ʔ
Affricate	ʣ	ʤ
Fricative	s	ʃ		h
Approximant		j	w

Vowels

	Front		Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Close	i
Close-mid	e	ẽ	o	õ
Open-mid		æ̃
Open	a

The nasal vowels are represented with diaereses on top: <ë ö ä>). Long vowels are indicated with a following <:>.

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