| Wyandot | ||
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| Spoken in: | Canada, United States | |
| Region: | northeastern Oklahoma, Quebec | |
| Language extinction: | Spoken until recently near Sandwich, Ontario and Wyandotte, Oklahoma. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk According to some definitions an extinct language is a Language which no longer has any speakers, whereas a dead language is a language which is no longer spoken Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and lies at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Wyandotte is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. There were 2 older adult speakers still alive in 1961. | |
| Language family: | Iroquoian Northern Iroquoian Proto-Lake Iroquoian Huron Wyandot |
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| Writing system: | modified Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | wya | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Iroquoian languages are a Native American Language family. A writing system is a type of Symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in Language. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Wyandot is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known variously as Wyandot, Wendat, or Huron. The Iroquoian languages are a Native American Language family. "Huron" redirects here For other uses see Huron (disambiguation. It was last spoken primarily in Oklahoma and Quebec. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Wyandot no longer has any native speakers, but is being studied and promoted as a second language. Anthropologist John Steckley was reported in 2007 as being the last speaker of Wyandot. John Steckley is a scholar specializing in Native American Studies and the Indigenous languages of the Americas. [1].
The Language is written with the Latin Alphabet, making use of two extra letters, θ for /θ/, and Ȣ for /u/. Theta (uppercase Θ, lowercase θ or ϑ; Θήτα is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth
The lyrics of the Christmas hymn Huron Carol, written in 1643 by the missionary Jean de Brébeuf, were originally written in Wyandot. A hymn is a type of Song, usually religious specifically written for the purpose of praise adoration or Prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities The " Huron Carol " (or "' Twas in the Moon of Wintertime " is a Canadian Christmas Hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song written in 1643 Saint Jean de Brébeuf ( 25 March 1593 &ndash 16 March 1649) was a Jesuit Missionary, Martyred in
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