Seneca (in Seneca, Onödowága or Onötowáka) is the language of the Seneca Native Band, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. About 10,000 Seneca live in the United States and Canada, primarily on reservations in western New York state, with others living in Oklahoma and near Brantford, Ontario.

Phonology

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The orthography described here is the one used by the Seneca Bilingual Education Project.

Consonants

Seneca has three stops, /t/, /k/, and . /t/ and /k/ become voiced ( and ) before vowels or approximants.

	Dental & Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal
Stop
Affricate
Fricative
Approximant

Vowels

		Front		Back
		Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Close
Close-mid
Open-mid
Open

The nasal vowels are represented with diareses on top: <ë ö ä>). Long vowels are indicated with a following <:>.

External links

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• Language Geek: Seneca
• Ethnologue Report on Seneca

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