Mohawk Language
Mohawk (Kanien’kéha) is an Iroquoian language spoken by around 3,000 people of the Mohawk nation in the United States (mainly western and northern New York) and Canada (southern Ontario and Quebec). Mohawk has the largest number of speakers of the Northern Iroquoian languages; today it is the only one with greater than a thousand remaining. At Akwesasne, residents have begun a language immersion school (pre-K to grade 8) in Kanien’kéha to revive the language. With their children learning it, parents and other family members are taking language classes, too.
Read more about Mohawk Language: Dialects, Phonology, Orthography, Grammar, Current Number of Speakers, Alexander Graham Bell, Learning Mohawk
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