Endangered Languages Project - Tuscarora

Tuscarora

^{[aka Skarohreh,]}

Classification: Iroquoian

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Skarohreh
CLASSIFICATION		Iroquoian, Northern Iroquoian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tus
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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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

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2-3
Native speakers worldwide
ELDERS
all over 80
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Only two or three speakers of Tuscarora remain, all over 80.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: New York, Ontario

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
7 in Canada (Kinkade 1991). 4 in United States; ethnic population 1,200 in the USA (M. Mithun 1997).
(Unchanged 2016.)

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: USA; Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Canada: Ontario, Six Nations Reserve; USA: Tuscarora Reservation near Niagara Falls, New York, eastern North Carolina.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
12
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2-3
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

43.0877,-79.0627; 43.072,-80.015

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

43.0877,-79.0627

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Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO