Endangered Languages Project - Cayuga

Cayuga

Classification: Iroquoian

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severely endangered

CLASSIFICATION		Iroquoian, Northern Iroquoian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cay
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Tribal leaders and linguists working with Cayuga prefer not to give current figures for number of speakers. The number of native speakers reportedly dropped to blow 100 by 2008.

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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

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
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.

PLACES: Ontario, Michigan

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3045
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Canada: 240 (2011 census), ethnic population 3000 (Yamamoto 2007).
US: 10 (1991 M. Kinkade), decreasing; ethnic population 45 (2000 census).

DATE OF INFO: 2011 (Canada), 1991 (US)

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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Speakers 40 years and older

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

English

PLACES: Canada, USA

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Canada: Ontario: Grand River, Six Nations Reserve.
US: New York: Cattaraugus Reservation.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
60
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~100
Native speakers worldwide
CHILDREN
0
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The youngest [speakers] around 40 years of age (Golla 2007).

PLACES: Grand River, Ontario

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
60
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
50 in Canada.

PLACES: USA; Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Grand River, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

43.019,-80.1506

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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