Talk:Wyandot language

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NAMES

What is a good name for a wendat/huron person? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.3.72 (talk) 01:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Contradictions

The main text says that Wyandot died out several centuries ago (not likely given how much is known about the language) and the box on the right side says it died out in 1961. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.179.64.223 (talk) 06:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

The consonants section of Phonology says about /n/ ad /d/: "Although it could be argued that the two are in free variation, in most instances they are in complementary distribution and clearly contrast, as in the minimal pairs da (‘that; the; who’) and na (‘now; then’)." The words 'da' and 'na' show that /d/ and /n/ are not in complementary distribution. Furthermore, being in complementary distribution would be evidence against the claim that the two sounds 'clearly contrast'. I think what's meant is 'contrastive distribution', but I'm proposing simply removing 'complementary distribution' since it's inconsistent with everything else in the paragraph. Cxhh (talk) 22:55, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Clarification of the Wendat/Wyandot relationship

Some parts of the article treat Wendat and Wyandot as only different names for exactly the same thing; other parts of the article treat them as related but definitely not the same. I can't tell whether this means reliable sources disagree about the actual facts, or reliable sources agree on the facts but disagree about what names to use, or if some of this article comes from unreliable sources. If reliable sources disagree, don't make up their minds for them. But it's necessary to SAY they disagree, explicitly, and in enough places - otherwise this article starts to look like it's full of mistakes. TooManyFingers (talk) 19:30, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Probably split part of this article to be a separated Wendat language? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I think what is happening is that there is disagreement whether Wendat is an ancestor of Wyandot or a separate language. If it is a separate language, it died out a few centuries ago, but if it is an ancestor of Wyandot, then it died out when Wyandot did, i.e. the 60s/70s. Either way it was in the 20th century that Wyandot died out before its revival. Would it be better to have a separate article for Wendat or a particular section of this article dedicated to Wendat? Electricbrass (talk) 19:18, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and created a separate Wendat language article draft and will move information from this one to it as I work on updating this one Electricbrass (talk) 18:41, 26 January 2023 (UTC)