A
language family of the north-eastern United States and adjoining Canada, including the
Mohawk,
Seneca (
Mingo),
Onondaga,
Cayuga,
Oneida,
Wyandot,
Tuscarora,
Huron, and
Cherokee languages. The Cherokees of course were later asked to move along there. Only Cherokee and Mohawk have a large number of speakers.
Sometimes grouped with the Sioux languages in a Macro-Siouan family.
A phonetic oddity is that they seem to have no P sound.