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NAMES

What is a good name for a wendat/huron person? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.3.72 (talk) 01:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictions

The main text says that Wyandot died out several centuries ago (not likely given how much is known about the language) and the box on the right side says it died out in 1961. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.179.64.223 (talk) 06:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The consonants section of Phonology says about /n/ ad /d/: "Although it could be argued that the two are in free variation, in most instances they are in complementary distribution and clearly contrast, as in the minimal pairs da (‘that; the; who’) and na (‘now; then’)." The words 'da' and 'na' show that /d/ and /n/ are not in complementary distribution. Furthermore, being in complementary distribution would be evidence against the claim that the two sounds 'clearly contrast'. I think what's meant is 'contrastive distribution', but I'm proposing simply removing 'complementary distribution' since it's inconsistent with everything else in the paragraph. Cxhh (talk) 22:55, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]