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Iroquoian

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1. Iroquoian - Noun

2. Iroquoian - Adjective

Meaning

a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois

Source: WordNet

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At that time, the land along the river was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians ; at the time of Cartier's second voyage in 1535, Donnacona, an Iroquoian chief, had two sons. Source: Internet

In 1763 and 1766 additional Tuscarora migrated north to settle with other Iroquoian peoples in Pennsylvania (where the Susquehannock and Erie people both had territory) and New York. Source: Internet

Hundreds of years before European exploration, the Iroquoian -speaking Seneca Nation developed in the central part of present-day New York; it became one of the first Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). Source: Internet

In the Iroquoian languages, for example, /w/ involved little apparent rounding of the lips. Source: Internet

The most important were the Catawba ( Siouan language ), Cherokee ( Iroquoian languages ), and Yamasee ( Muskhogean language). Source: Internet

The name "Canada" itself derives from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word meaning "village" or "settlement". Source: Internet

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