Oneida
(Abbott, Clifford)
The current work is based on two and a half decades of field work in the Wisconsin Oneida community, where fewer than a couple dozen native speakers remain. Despite the endangered status there is an oral literature, primarily in the rich ceremonial tradition. The community actively invests in language revitalization efforts and there is limited literacy in an orthography not more than a few decades old. Among Oneida?s more notable structural features are: a relatively small phonemic inventory lacking in labials; the use of whispered syllables; a highly complex verbal morphology; the dominance of verbal structures over nominal ones; and the productive use of noun incorporation.
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