Wiktionary:About Mohawk

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Orthography

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Please use the modern orthography from the Mohawk Language Standardisation Project.

Use : for long vowels and ʼ for glottal stops

Old Symbol v u y ?
Equivalent en on i/y

Lemma

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The lemma for verbs will be first person habitual, or third person neuter habitual if it's impersonal. The lemma for nouns will contain the noun prefixes and suffixes.

Following orthographic convention, and h should not be written, but a redirect can be made

Nouns should list their incorporated form, and verbs their incorporating form if it differs from the regular one

Sources

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Title Author (year) Dialect Notes
A thousand words of Mohawk Michelson (1973) Kahnawà:ke Root-Based, old orthography
Mohawk Teaching Grammar Deering (1976) Kahnawà:ke Not a dictionary, but has vocabulary and grammar notes
Mohawk Spelling Dictionary Various (1977) Ahkwesáhsne English-to-Mohawk only
Mohawk Language Dictionary Maracle (1990) Kenhtè:ke Root-based
Kanien’keha Thematic Dictionary Maracle (1999,2015) Kahnawà:ke Thematic
Kanien’keha Morphology Various (1990) Kahnawà:ke Not a dictionary, but has grammar notes