• Wyandot (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Quendat or Huron) is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known as Wyandot or Wyandotte, descended...
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    Northeastern Woodlands of North America, and speakers of an Iroquoian language, Wyandot. In the United States, the Wyandotte Nation is a federally recognized...
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    Ontario (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    Huron (Wyandot) word meaning "great lake", or possibly skanadario, which means "beautiful water" or "sparkling water" in the Iroquoian languages. Ontario...
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  • wyandot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wyandot may refer to: Wyandot people, who have been called Wyandotte, Huron, Wendat and Quendat Wyandot language...
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    with the Wyandot tribal elders (Barbeau 1960) yielded enough documentation for scholars to characterize and classify the Huron and Petun languages. The languages...
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    Great Lakes (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    Named for the inhabitants of the area, the Wyandot (or "Hurons"), by the first French explorers . The Wyandot originally referred to the lake by the name...
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    century indicates that the Wyandot language (also called Huron), one of the Iroquoian languages, was also used as a trade language east of the Great Lakes...
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    Striped skunk (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is a skunk of the genus Mephitis that occurs across much of North America, including southern Canada, the United...
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    Algonquin people (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    l'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Big River People, Gens d l'Isle, Honkeronon (Wyandot language), Island Algonquian, Island Indians, Island Nation, People from the...
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    Adjala-Tosorontio (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    Adjala–Tosorontio is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, in the County of Simcoe. A predominantly rural area, Adjala–Tosorontio contains numerous...
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    named for the Wyandot Indians, who lived here before and after European encounter. Their autonym is variously translated from their language as "around the...
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    Lake Huron (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    French explorers who named it for the indigenous people they knew as Huron (Wyandot) inhabiting the region. The Huronian glaciation was named from evidence...
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  • Huron Carol (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    released on the October 21, 2016. The original words of the carol in the Wyandot language (Huron). Estenniayon de tsonwe Iesous ahatonnia onn' awatewa nd' oki...
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    is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
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    Lake Ontario (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    American city of Rochester is located on the south shore. In the Huron language, the name Ontarí'io means "great lake". Its primary inlet is the Niagara...
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    Scioto River (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    is derived from the Wyandot word skɛnǫ·tǫ’ 'deer' (compare Shenandoah, derived from the word for deer in another Iroquoian language). During the antebellum...
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    Crawford Lake (Halton Region) (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    Crawford Lake (Wyandot: Kionywarihwaen) is a lake near the community of Campbellville, in the town of Milton, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario...
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  • Nation, Ouaouechkairini, Ouassouarini, Ouescharini, Ouionontateronon (Wyandot language), or Petite Nation, are a group of indigenous peoples in Canada. They...
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    Sandusky County, Ohio (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    portions of Huron County. The name is derived from the Wyandot word meaning "water" (Wyandot: saandustee). The Sandusky River runs diagonally northeast...
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    Ou (ligature) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Latin o and u: for example, in the orthography of the Wyandot language and of Algonquian languages e.g. in Western Abenaki to represent /ɔ̃/, and in Algonquin...
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    Sandusky River (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    The Sandusky River (Wyandot: saandusti; Shawnee: Potakihiipi ) is a tributary to Lake Erie in north-central Ohio in the United States. It is about 133...
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    Jean de Brébeuf (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    to learning the Huron (Wyandot) language. People with a strong positive attitude towards the language often learn the language much more easily. Brébeuf...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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  • List of Native American deities (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    AMONG THE INNU OF EASTERN QUEBEC AND LABRADOR" (PDF). "ARESKOUI - the Wyandot God of Creation (Native American mythology)". Godchecker - Your Guide to...
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    Sainte-Anne River (Les Chenaux) (category Articles containing Wyandot-language text)
    The Sainte-Anne River, a north shore tributary of Saint Lawrence River, the mouth river is located at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade. This river flows in the...
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    Erie was believed to have been an Iroquoian language spoken by the Erie people, similar to Wyandot. But it was poorly documented, and linguists are not...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Name of Toronto (category Articles containing French-language text)
    word toronto, meaning 'plenty', appeared in a French lexicon of the Wyandot language in 1632. Toronto, however, did not appear on any map of the region...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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  • John Steckley (category Last known speakers of a Native American language)
    the Wyandot language, which he has studied for over thirty years. Today he works closely with the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma to aid in language revitalization...
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