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Iroquoian, a. and n.|ˈɪrəkwɔɪən, -kɔɪ-|
[f. Iroquois a. and n. + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Iroquois, or to the language family defined in sense B a below.
B. n.
a. A language family which includes the Iroquois, Huron, Cherokee, and several lesser-known American Indian languages.
b. A member of this linguistic group.
1697L. Le Compte Mem. Journey through China i. v. 124 Iroquian Mathematicians, or Learned Alkonkins. 1888J. C. Pilling (title) Bibliography of the Iroquoian languages. Ibid. Pref. p. v, To the Iroquoian perhaps belongs the honor of being the first of our American families of languages to be placed upon record. 1906Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 679 The Iroquoian tribes of North America possess a word which exactly expresses this potentiality. 1917W. K. Moorehead Stone Ornaments Indians 170 A surface find in the Iroquoian area in New York is no sure indication that the artifact is Iroquoian. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Iroquoian family was spoken in a district surrounded by Algonquian; it includes..the Huron (or Wyandot) language, and the languages of the Iroquois type..; in a detached region to the south Cherokee was spoken. 1934D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 2) xix. 288 When Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence river in 1535 he found Iroquoians cultivating the land and controlling the country around the present site of Montreal. 1959E. Tunis Indians 19/2 Remnants of the temple-mound culture survived into historical times among the Muskhogean Indians of the Southeast and there are broad hints of a connection between the burial-mound people and the Iroquoians. 1968F. G. Lounsbury in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 51 The writer has done intensive field work on a language—Cayuga, one of the languages of the Iroquoian family. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 25 May 53/1 Various groups that spoke dialects of the Iroquoian language. |