LIN 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indian Removal Act, Code Talker, Hawaiian Pidgin
12 May 2016
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Surviving american indian languages belong to at least 21 distinct families, which include a few large families and several small families and isolates (languages with no known relatives: Seneca, oneida, mohawk, onondaga, cayuga, tuscarora (still have speakers; but no children are being raised as native speakers today) --cherokee: separate branch of iroquoian; 10,000-20,000 speakers of all ages. --many place names near buffalo are of iroquoian origin. --covers much of the northeast + parts of midwest, plains, much of canada. --earliest contact of english settlers were largely with speakers of algonquian languages; many of these are now extinct: Eastern: passamaquoddy (a few hundred speakers in mine); mi"kmaq (100s of speakers in us, Other branches: cree; blackfoot (both mainly canadian but some speakers in montana); ojibwe (10,000s of speakers in us and canada); cheyenne (montana) Many english words of american-indian origin are from algonquian languages. Muskogean (southeastern us): choctaw (about 10,000 speakers); creek (muscogee) Both have children being raised as native speakers.
