Tutelo
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A language of Canada
Alternate Names
Saponi, Tutelo-Saponi
User Population
No known L1 speakers. Last native speaker, Albert Green, died in 1985.
Location
Ontario: Six Nations Reserve.
Language Status
10 (Extinct).
Originally spoken in the United States, in what is now Virginia and West Virginia. Some Tutelo speakers migrated north to escape warfare, traveling through North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, and finally, settling in Ontario after the American Revolutionary War.