How did the senecas communicate?

Seneca people spoke a language called Onödowága; it is closely related to Cayuga but less closely to the other Iroquois languages. A Seneca and Cayuga could probably communicate fairly easily, each speaking in their

It is likely that some Senecas learned to speak the languages of the other Iroquois groups (Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk) in order to act as interpreters, otherwise a form of sign language must have been used.