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Tutelo also known as Tutelo–Saponi is a member of the Virginian branch of Siouan languages that was originally spoken in what is now Virginia and West Virginia as well as in the later travels of the speakers through North Carolina Pennsylvania New York and finally Ontario.The last fluent full-blooded speaker Nikonha died in 1871 at age 106 but managed to impart about 100 words of vocabulary to the ethnologist Horatio Hale who had visited him at Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Ontario the year before.