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Oneida is polysynthetic which means that words are comprised of many morphemes. In addition, Oneida has substantial noun incorporation.
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[one] It is estimated that there are 1,000 native speakers of Oneida. Members of the Oneida tribe are spread across areas upstate New York, Wisconsin, and Ontario. All members are either monolingual English speakers or bilingual, with English as their primary language and Oneida as their secondary language.
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[one] There are an estimated 1,000 native speakers of Oneida. Members of the Oneida tribe live in upstate New York, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The majority who speak Oneida use it as a secondary language.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_language] Although there are very few speakers, its speakers' influence has led to the creation of numerous websites aimed at providing resources such as dictionaries, recordings, and lesson plans to people interested in learning or teaching the language. These video and audio recordings were collected in the early twentieth century.[https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/Oneida/]
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what is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations, is there a normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features / multiple official/historical orthographies / etc.)?
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Revision as of 22:24, 23 January 2019

I would like to work with Dylan Charter.

Oneida

Typology

Oneida is polysynthetic which means that words are comprised of many morphemes. In addition, Oneida has substantial noun incorporation.

About

[one] There are an estimated 1,000 native speakers of Oneida. Members of the Oneida tribe live in upstate New York, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The majority who speak Oneida use it as a secondary language.[1] Although there are very few speakers, its speakers' influence has led to the creation of numerous websites aimed at providing resources such as dictionaries, recordings, and lesson plans to people interested in learning or teaching the language. These video and audio recordings were collected in the early twentieth century.[2],