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'Tuscarora' or 'Skarure' is an Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people, spoken in Canada and the United States, in western New York and southern Ontario. The original homeland of the Tuscarora was in North Carolina.

Contents

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

Bibliography

See also

External links

Phonology

Vowels

Tuscarora apparently has eight oral vowels, , and two nasal vowels, . Nasal vowels are customarily indicated with an ogonek, long vowels with a following colon, <:>, and (which may actually be ) with .

	Front	Central	Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral
Close
Open-mid
Open

Consonants

	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop
Fricative
Nasal
Glide
Rhotic

The consonant inventory of Tuscarora is quite small, with plosives , fricatives , nasal , and sonorants . There may also be the phonemes and , although they probably occur only in loan words. is commonly spelled <č>. represents . The phonemic consonant cluster is realized as a postalveolar fricative .

Bibliography

★ Rudes, Blair A. (1999). ''Tuscarora-English / English-Tuscarora Dictionary''. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

★ Rudes, Blair A., and Dorothy Crouse (1987). ''The Tuscarora Legacy of J. N. B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of Tuscarora Language and Culture''. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 108.

See also

★ Tuscarora (tribe)

External links

★ Language Geek: Tuscarora

★ Tuscarora Language at the Tuscarora School

★ Ethnologue Report on Tuscarora

★ Tuscarora Language Learning Yahoo! Group