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Name: Oneida Alternate Names: Oneida (Canada) (in French); Oneida (New York) (in French); Oneida (Wisconsin) (in French); Oneida (Wisconsin) (in Spanish) Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 200 in Canada (Kincade 1991). Population total all countries: 250. Ethnic population: 1,500 to 2,000 (1997 H. Woodbury) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 12 (UNESCO) Code: one Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Iroquoian Parent Subgroup: Iroquois Proper; Five Nations Iroquois (lptd) Child Dialects: Green Bay (one-gre) Southwold (one-sou) Brief Description: "Oneida is a Northern Iroquoian language, originally spoken by a tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy (Six Nations) situated east of the Onondagas and west of the Mohawks, south of Oneida Lake. Most of the modern Oneidas live in two widely separated reservation communities, about 3,000 on the Thames River near London, Ontario, and 11,000 at Green Bay, Wisconsin. In addition, a few hundred Oneidas continue to live in upstate New York, some on a small tract of land near the town of Oneida, and others dispersed into neighbouring white and Indian communities. There are about 200 fluent speakers of Oneida in Ontario and perhaps a dozen in Wisconsin; there are no reliable estimates for the New York Oneidas." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed