Draft:Wendat language

Not to be confused with Wyandot language.

Wendat
Wendat
Native to	Canada, United States
Region	northeastern Oklahoma, Quebec; recently near Sandwich, Ontario, and Wyandotte, Oklahoma
Extinct	(date missing)
Revival	Oklahoma and Quebec have limited language programs (2007)
Language family	Iroquoian Northern Lake Iroquoian Ontarian Huronian Wendat
Writing system	modified Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wdt – Wendat
Glottolog	wend1234
Huron Wyandot is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Wendat or Huron is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known as Wendat, Quendat or Huron, descended from the Huron-Wendat Confederacy. It is considered a sister to the Wyandot language, spoken by descendants of the Tionontati. It was last spoken, before its revival, by members located primarily in Oklahoma, United States and Quebec, Canada. It is the heritage language of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Orthography

Wendat is written in the Latin script. Although based on the 17th-century orthography of the Jesuit missionaries, the current orthography no longer uses the Greek letters θ for [tʰ], χ for [kʰ], ͺ for [ç], or ȣ for [u] and [w]. Pre-nasalization of stops is indicated by ⟨n⟩ (e.g., ⟨nd⟩). Nasal vowels are indicated as in French by ⟨n⟩ (e.g., ⟨en⟩, ⟨on⟩). To disambiguate nasal vowels from oral vowels followed by /n/, the latter have diaeresis over the vowel (e.g., ⟨ën⟩, ⟨ön⟩). Glottal stops are written with an apostrophe. The fricative /ʃ/ is written as ⟨ch⟩.