Cayuga
Classification: Iroquoian
·severely endangered
Classification: Iroquoian
·severely endangered
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
There are about 100 first-language speakers of Cayuga in Ontario, the youngest around 40 years of age. A dialect of Cayuga was spoken in Oklahoma as late as the 1980s but is now apparently extinct.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
3045
Canada: 240 (2011 census), ethnic population 3000 (Yamamoto 2007).
US: 10 (1991 M. Kinkade), decreasing; ethnic population 45 (2000 census).
Speakers 40 years and older
English
Canada: Ontario: Grand River, Six Nations Reserve.
US: New York: Cattaraugus Reservation.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO