Klass September 2014 Wa ⁿ dat Language Presentation for ǫmakyehstiʔ Tribes in the area in the early 1600s Wendat Huron Confederacy Included five T ribes Attignawantan Attigneenongahac ID: 287034
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Katie KlassSeptember 2014
Wa
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dat
Language Presentation for
ǫmakyehstiʔSlide2
Tribes in the area in the early 1600sWendat (Huron) Confederacy
Included five
Tribes: Attignawantan, Attigneenongahac, Arendahronon, Tahontaenrat, and Ataronchronon Tionontati (Petun) Tribe Atiwandaronk (Neutral) Tribe Wenro TribeWas part of the Atiwandaronk (Neutral) Tribe early onErie TribeIroquois (Five Nations) Confederacy Included five Tribes: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk
Brief HistorySlide3
Brief History, Cont.Slide4
1609The Wendat Confederacy
encountered the
French1630sSeveral epidemics killed half the Wendat peopleTension was building because the Wendat Confederacy allied with France and the Iroquois Confederacy allied with England in the fur trade, and the Iroquois Confederacy changed military tactics and began wiping out entire villages 1649The Wendat people left their villages on the Georgian BayThe Wendat Confederacy split off into many directions, with some joining with other friendly tribes and some being absorbed into hostile tribesBrief History, Cont.Slide5
Current location of linguistic Wendat and
Tionontati
descendantsHuron-Wendat Nation (Lorette, Canada)Wyandot of Anderdon Nation (Trenton, Michigan)Wyandot Nation of Kansas (Kansas City, Kansas)Wyandotte Nation (Wyandotte, Oklahoma)Brief History, Cont.Slide6
Closely related languages (sister languages)Northern Iroquoian
Lake Iroquoian
Huronian WaⁿdatWendat Tionontati, Atiwandaronk, Wenro, Erie Five NationsMohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Susquehannock, Cayuga, SenecaCoast Iroquoian Tuscarora, Nottoway, MeherrinSouthern IroquoianCherokeeLanguage Context, Cont.Slide7
Our last
Wa
ⁿdat speakerFrank Wilson (pseudonym)Alive in 1972, and spoke only Waⁿdat as a child Recordings in the 1950s and 1960sEx. Sarah Dushane in 1966 in Miami, OKMarius BarbeauCanadian folklorist, lawyer, and anthropologist who worked for the Geological Survey of CanadaRecorded Waⁿdat in 1911 and 1912In Craig’s database, 25,641 words were preserved by Barbeau, and only 6,294 were preserved by others
Language Preservation Slide8
Bruce PearsonStarted working with the Wyandotte Nation in 1994Uses a version of
Americanist
transcription, with some of Barbeau’s phonetic symbols maintained (ex. glottal stop is ʼ) Compiled a handbook and dictionary of Waⁿdat based mostly on Barbeau’s 4o stories Translated the 40 stories Barbeau recorded into Americanist transcription Our Linguists Slide9
Craig Kopris Had contact with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas in the 1990s, started working with
Wa
ⁿdat in 1991, started compiling the databases in 1997, began attending Culture Days in 2010Uses a version of Americanist transcript, but does not maintain Barbeau’s symbols (ex. glottal stop is ʔ ) Has created three electronic databasesVocabulary – 31,935 entriesRoots – 1,147 entriesTexts – 48 preserved texts Is currently putting together a high school level Waⁿdat language class Our Linguists, Cont. Slide10
April 2012Recorded artifact words and The Young Woman Fallen from Above story with Craig for the “Gathering of Traditions” Barbeau
museum exhibit
June 2013Recorded conversational words and phrases with Craig for the the 2013 Culture Days language presentationMy Experiences Slide11
Verbs are very important and usually consist of three elements:
Verb root –
Conveys the basic action or state of beingPronominal prefix – Identifies the person associated with the action or state of beingSuffix – Indicates the status of the action or state of being The way a word is pronounced can drastically modify its meaning“H” can do more things than it can in English Has “ⁿd” and “ⁿg”Has “ž” and “m”Unique Waⁿdat TraitsSlide12
Waⁿdat
uses 14 consonants and seven vowels As opposed to the 24 consonants and 14 vowels in English, but this also depends on your dialect Nasalized vowelsĘ – Like “mend” (not “med” or “meh”) ǫ́ – Like “honk” or “song”New SoundsSlide13
Glottal stopsʔ
– Like
“uh-oh” or “hot tamale”Pre-nasal stopsⁿd and ⁿg – With the “n” sound being very faintSounds you know but look differentŠ (s-wedge) – Like “sh”ž (z-wedge) – Like “pleasure”Consonants without aspiration (breathing out)KTNew Sounds, Cont.