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Oneida
Typology
Oneida is polysynthetic which means that words are comprised of many morphemes.[1] In addition, Oneida has substantial noun incorporation and derivational and inflectional suffixes. [2]
Basic Information
[one] There are an estimated 67 native speakers of Oneida as of 2016. Members of the Oneida tribe live in upstate New York, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The majority who speak Oneida use it as a secondary language.[3] 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.[4]
Resources
Omniglot has a text in Oneida.
Oneida teaching grammar from the University of Wisconsin — Green Bay:
Evenki
Typology
Evenki is a nominative-accusative language that is highly agglutinating, suffixing, and not flexive. It has 13 cases. [5]
Basic Information
[evn] There about 15,000 native speakers who reside in Northern China and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Evenki is a 7 transmission level language which means that the language is not being transmitted to the next generation. Most speakers also know Russian and Mandarin Chinese. In Russia, Evenki is written using the Cyrillic script. In China, it is written in the Latin script.
