Seneca
[aka Tsonnontouan, Taroko,]Classification: Iroquoian
·critically endangered
Classification: Iroquoian
·critically endangered
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Information from: “An Overview of Language Preservation at Ohi: yoʹ, the Seneca Allegany Territory.” . Borgia, Melissa E. (2010)
"there are less than 50 speakers altogether" (from personal communication from Wallace Chafe, 2007) (p. iv).
English
Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO
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
The youngest speaker is in his 50s.
It is now spoken by about 100 people in three reservation communities in New York: Cattaraugus, on Lake Erie;
Allegany, in Salamanca; and Tonawanda, near Buffalo.
English
In three reservation communities in New York: Cattaraugus, on Lake Erie; Allegany, in Salamanca; and Tonawanda, near Buffalo.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press