Cayuga Spelling Manual

This spelling manual is a revised and expanded version of the description in:

Mithun, Marianne and Reg Henry. 1984. Watewayęstanih. A Cayuga teaching grammar. Brantford, Ontario: Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre.

This version of the spelling manual has been modified for the Henry orthography, and takes into account many comments provided by Cayuga speakers during spelling workshops that took place in the summer of 2005.

This version of the Cayuga spelling manual is also in html format. You can either print up the manual, or you can view it on your computer. The advantage of viewing it on your computer is that you can also listen to many of the example Cayuga words.

If you’re using this manual on your computer, you can e-mail Carrie Dyck with any comments. If you’re connected to the internet, just click on the following link: cdyck@mun.ca.

How to see and hear this manual

The Cayuga and IPA letters in this manual are displayed in unicode, and the sounds are played with Macromedia's Flash Player. In order to see and hear things right, you may need to adjust your computer settings. Please consult with your resident computer expert, or check out this instruction page.

Note: some of the Cayuga letters, particularly the nasal 'o', do not yet display properly.