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Wyandot is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known variously as Wyandot, Wyandotte, Wendat, or Huron.
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The province is named after Lake Ontario, which is thought to have been derived from Ontarí: io, a Huron ( Wyandot ) word meaning " great lake ", or possibly skanadario which means " beautiful water " in the Iroquoian languages.
One such surmises that the word is borrowed from the Wyandot ( called Huron by the French ) pronunciation of the French l ' anglais ( meaning " the Englishman " or " the English ( language )"), sounded as Y ' an-gee.
Wyandot County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States.
Its name comes from the Wyandot Indians and is variously translated from their language as " around the plains " and " dwellers on the peninsula ".
Wyandot County is represented in the Ohio General Assembly by state Representative Jeff McClain, formerly Wyandot County Auditor, and state Senator Dave Burke.
Its county seat is Fremont and it is named for a native word meaning " water " ( Wyandot: saundustee ).
The county is named after the Wyandot ( also known as Wyandott or Wyandotte ) Indians.
One branch of the Wyandot moved to the area that is now the state of Ohio.
Others say it was named for Col. William Crawford, who fought in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War, and who was burned and scalped by Indians in 1782 in what is now Wyandot County, Ohio.
It is named for Wyandot Chief Burlington.
The Museum of Ojibwa Culture at the site of a Wyandot people | Wyandot ( Huron ) village, as well as the St. Ignace Mission ; the mission is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
By 1738 there was a Wyandot settlement at what is now Castalia under the leadership of Nicholas Orontony.
Due to growing disputes with the French and closer trade relations with Pennsylvania-based merchants, the Wyandot burned their village and relocated to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in what is today Cleveland in 1748.
Forest is a village in Hardin and Wyandot counties in the U. S. state of Ohio.
Carey is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Harpster is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Kirby is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Marseilles is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Nevada ( pronounced nah-VAY-da ) is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Sycamore is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Wharton is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
Wyandot and Iroquoian
While early theories placed Huron origin in the St. Lawrence Valley, with some arguing for a presence near Montreal and other St. Lawrence Iroquoian peoples, archeological findings since the 1950s have demonstrated conclusively the Wyandot had no habitation there.
Although it is traditionally equated with or seen as a dialect of the Iroquoian Wendat ( Huron ), Wyandot became so differentiated as to be considered a distinct language.
The presence of a single voiced stop,, contrasting with the voiceless stop, makes Wyandot unusual among Iroquoian languages, all of which lack a voicing distinction.
Both the Wyandot and are cognate with in other Northern Iroquoian languages.
Other analysis of the same Barbeau data suggests vowel length is contrastive in Wyandot, as in other Iroquoian languages.
The Wyandot Confederation was made up of loosely associated tribes who spoke a mutually intelligible Iroquoian language.
Huron or Wyandot, was the language of the Susquehannock people, which is part of the Iroquoian language family
Huron or Wyandot, was the language of the Susquehannock people, which is part of the Iroquoian language family.
The Erie spoke an Iroquoian language said to have been similar to Wyandot.
Wyandot and language
In the Wyandot ( Huron ) language, ontarío means “ Lake of Shining Waters ”.
Huron refers to the Wyandot indigenous people of North America and to the Wyandot language.
The approximately 3, 000 Wyandot in Quebec are primarily Catholic and speak French as a first language.
They have begun to promote the study and use of the Wyandot language among their children.
Known variously as: Algoumequins de l ' Isle-aux-Allumettes, Big River People, Gens d l ' Isle, Honkeronon ( Wyandot language ), Island Algonquian, Island Indians, Island Nation, People from the Island, Kichesippiriniwek, Nation de l ' Isle, Nation of the Isle, and Savages de l ' Isle.
* Wàwàckeciriniwak (" people of the deer ") — Also known as the Algonquian Proper, Weskarini, La Petite Nation, Little Nation, Ouaouechkairini, Ouassouarini, Ouescharini, Ouionontateronon ( Wyandot language ), or Petite Nation.
Before the Anishinaabe language replaced the Wyandot language in mid-17th century as the lingua franca of the Great Lakes region, the Mississaugas were also known by the name ( exonym ) which the Wendat called them.
The name Penetanguishene is believed to come from either the Wyandot language or from the Abenaki language via the Ojibwa language, meaning " land of the white rolling sands ".
; Ontario: Named after Lake Ontario, which got its name from a First Nations language, most likely from onitariio, meaning " beautiful lake ", or kanadario, translated as " sparkling " or " beautiful ", or possibly from Wyandot ( Huron ) ontare (" lake ").
Wyandot essentially " died out " as a spoken language nearly a century ago, though there are now attempts at revitalization.
The Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma is offering Wyandot language classes in the Wyandotte Public Schools, grades K – 4, and also at the Wyandotte Nation's preschool " Turtle-Tots " program.
By the time the ethnographer Marius Barbeau made his transcriptions of the Wyandot language in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, in 1911-1912, it had diverged enough to be considered a separate language.
History suggests the roots of this language are complex ; the ancestors of the Wyandot were refugees from various Huronian tribes who banded together to form one tribe.
The work of Marius Barbeau was used by linguist Craig Kopris to reconstruct Wyandot and put together a grammar and dictionary of the language.
This work represents the most comprehensive research done on the Wyandot language as spoken in Oklahoma just prior to its extinction ( or its " dormancy " as modern tribal members refer to it ).
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