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Mohawk occurs as Native American language spoken in the United States and Canada. These are a portion of the Iroquoian family.
Phonology
According to healthy files available at http://www.ohwejagehka.com/lang.htm, a phoneme inventory appears to exist when as follows (applying IPA notation):
Consonants
There come there is no bilabials (unless of these numbers /w/ when labial like than velar).
It is indecipherable whether aspiration is phonemiOne hundred or even a realization of C + /h/; probably the latter when ‘new hampshire’ is /n/ + /h/, & ‘sh’ is /s/ + /h/ (non IPA ).
Listening to the syllabication of careful speech suggests that orthographic "ʦ" is indeed an affricative, since "tsh" corresponds to IPA — though it raises a wonder of how come non utilise one symbol for every one? (Fallowing 100%, by having such the little inventory, there are lots of Latin letters available!)
Vowels
Length is contrastive.
Nasalization is contrastive.
There pop up to become the high & moo tone. (View tonal language.)
Some phrases
Naho:ten ken:ton'? - What make love mean?
Tiohrhen:sa sata:ti. - Say it inside English, Speak around English.
Onkwehonwehneha sata:ti. - Say it within Indian. Speak inside Indian.
Sa'nikonhraien:tas ken? - Do you need?
Seni'nikonraien:tas ken? - Do you (d) realize?
Sewa'nikonhraien:tas ken? - Do you (p) read?
Iah tewake'nikonhraien:ta's. - We don't read.
Onhka thi? - World health organization's that?
Onhka ki? - World health organization's this?
Ontiaten:ro' ne thi. - That is our friend. (m to m)
Ontiaten:ro' ne ki. - This is the friend. (m)
Ontiatshi ne thi. - That is the friend. (f talking all about f)
Ontiatshi ne ki. - This is our friend.(f)
Raterihwaienstha ken? - Is he the student?
Ionterihwaienstha ken? - Is she the student?
Saterihwaienstha ken? - Come your family the student?
Ronterihwaienstha ken? - Come it (p,m) student?
Hen. - Yes
To:ka - We don't understand.
Iah tewakaterien:tare'. - I personally don't understand. (civilised form)
Tanon' onhka ne: nakaonha? - & world health organization is she?
Tanon' onhka ne: ne raonha? - & world health organization is he?
Tanon' onhka ni:se'? - & world health organization come busy people?
Tanon' onhka ne: ne rononha? - & world health organization come it(p,m)?
Raterihwaienstha ni' ne'e. - He's the student, as well.
Ionterihwaienstha ni ne'e. - She's the student, as well.
Katerihwaienstha ni ne'e. - We'm the student, as well.
Ronterihwaienstha ni ne'e - It (p,m) come students, as well.
Ontiatshi ne'e. - She is our friend(f).
Ontiaten:ro' ne'e - He's our friend(m).
Ontiaten:ro' ne ki. - This is the friend(m).
Onkwaten:ro ne'e - It (p,m) come the friends
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