Oneida language

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The Oneida language is an Iroquoian Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Oneida people, one of the nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.

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Label Occurrences
Oneida language canonical 16

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language of North America
Iroquoian language
endangered language
associatedWith Iroquois Confederacy
surface form: Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Iroquois Confederacy
belongsTo Northern Iroquoian branch
closelyRelatedTo Cayuga language
Mohawk language
Onondaga language
Seneca language
culturalSignificance key marker of Oneida identity
ethnicGroup Oneida nation
surface form: Oneida people
glottocode onei1249
hasDomain oral storytelling traditions
traditional ceremonies
traditional governance and diplomacy
hasFeature animacy distinctions
aspect-based verbal system
noun incorporation
obviative marking (in some analyses)
pronominal prefixes
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
contrastive vowel length
series of oral and nasal vowels
hasTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
verb-centered morphology
ISO639-3Code one
languageFamily Iroquoian languages
morphologicalType polysynthetic
numberOfSpeakers few hundred speakers (approximate, 21st century)
region North America
revitalizationEfforts community language classes
curriculum development
immersion schools
language documentation projects
spokenIn Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
status severely endangered
subfamily Iroquoian languages
surface form: Northern Iroquoian languages
traditionalRegion New York
surface form: New York State

Ontario
Wisconsin
usedBy Oneida nation
surface form: Oneida Indian Nation of New York

Oneida nation
surface form: Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

Oneida nation
surface form: Oneida Nation of the Thames
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Haudenosaunee hasLanguage Oneida language
Iroquoian languages includesLanguage Oneida language
Iroquoian languages hasMember Oneida language
Mohawk language closelyRelatedTo Oneida language
Tuscarora language relatedTo Oneida language
Five Nations usesLanguage Oneida language
Six Nations usesLanguage Oneida language
Oneida nation traditionalLanguage Oneida language
subject surface form: Oneida Nation
Seneca language closelyRelatedTo Oneida language
Cayuga language closelyRelatedTo Oneida language
Onondaga language closelyRelatedTo Oneida language
Wyandot language closelyRelatedTo Oneida language
Ohsweken, Ontario hasPrimaryLanguage Oneida language