It was last spoken, before its revival, by members located primarily in Oklahoma, United States, and Quebec, Canada.

Linguists have traditionally considered Wyandot as a dialect or modern form of Wendat, even though the two are no longer mutually intelligible.

After being displaced from their ancestral home in Canada on Georgian Bay, the group traveled south, first to Ohio and later to Kansas and Oklahoma.

[5] The work of Barbeau was used by linguist Craig Kopris to reconstruct Wyandot; he developed a grammar and dictionary of the language.

[6] This work represents the most comprehensive research done on the Wyandot language as spoken in Oklahoma just prior to its extinction (or its dormancy as modern tribal members refer to it).

The phonemic inventory of the consonants is written by using the orthography used by Kopris in his analysis, which was based on Barbeau's transcriptions.

Although the two largely appear to be in free variation, they clearly contrast in some cases (as in the minimal pairs da 'that, the, who' and na 'now, then'.

[12] Barbeau's original transcriptions contained great detail and a complex system of diacritics, resulting in 64 different vowel characters.

Other analysis of the same Barbeau data suggests that vowel length is contrastive in Wyandot, like in other Iroquoian languages.

[15] Since 2005, Richard Zane Smith of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas (an unrecognized non-profit organization that identifies as a Native American tribe) has been volunteering and teaching in the Wyandotte schools with the aid of the linguist Kopris.

In Wendake, Quebec, the First Nations people are working on a revival of Wendat language and culture.