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Dear Fellow Earthlings,

Happiness flooded my heart and soul today as “G” and I worked with an expert on Iroquoian languages (and a speaker of Mohawk) named Brandon Martin, and a Seneca man named Robbie Jimerson. We worked together at the Seneca children’s school outside of Salamanca, New York

Dr. Martin was there primarily to teach adult Seneca people their own language! He uses an innovative method that has proved highly successful in reviving the Mohawk language. Mr. Jimerson was there to put as much data compiled as possible into computerized files.

As for me, I worked with “G” on resonance in Seneca phonology. At present I have determined the relative resonances of 37 phonemes in Seneca. For Seneca I have defined preponderantly resonant gestures as those with a relatively greater amount of resonance and preponderantly non-resonant gestures as those with a relative modicum of resonance.

For the moment, as I continue to develop the Seneca Jingles (Gaënö’), I will define the R1 gestures as Secondary Synergy Low Resonance gestures, the R2 and R3 gestures as Tertiary Synergy Medium Resonance gestures, and the R4 and R5 gestures as Secondary Synergy High Resonance gestures.

It is my desire that those wishing to revive the phonology of Seneca do so in a manner which preserves its distinctive resonance from the resonances of its fellow Five Nations Iroquoian languages. See more about this on page one of a “A Grammar of the Seneca Language” by Wallace Chafe, University of California Press ©2015.

Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.