Iroquoian
Iroquoian is a Native American language family including Iroquois, Mingo, and Cherokee. Every language in this family has at least one nasal vowel phoneme. Cherokee's is a nasal schwa, written in transliteration as 'v' (e.g. "Hv?" sounds like "Huh?" nasalized, and means the same thing).The Iroquoi were made up of a group or league of tribes that settled much of the land from western New York to western Ohio. They were not nomadic but preferred to live in villages with houses built of saplings and bark or thatch commonly called long houses. Food such as corn, squash, beans, and other crops were cultivated and stored in various types of pottery jars. Excavated grains, pottery and other evidence suggests that a typical Indian meal consisted of soup made from different plants and animals, with corn as a staple in their diets.
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