TTA ISO 639-3
Tutelo
A language of Canada
- ISO 639
- tta
- Alternate Names
- Saponi, Tutelo-Saponi
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. Last native speaker, Albert Green, died in 1985.
- Location:
- Ontario: Six Nations Reserve.
- Language Status
- 10 (Extinct).
- Classification
- Siouan-Catawban, Siouan, Mississippi Valley-Ohio Valley Siouan
- Other Comments
- Originally spoken in the United States, in what is now Virginia and West Virginia. Some Tutelo speakers migrated north to escape warfare, traveling through North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, and finally, settling in Ontario after the American Revolutionary War.
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Ontario: Six Nations Reserve.
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