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The Cherokee Nation Language Department is committed to preserving and perpetuating the Cherokee language through day to day spoken use and by generating more proficient second-language Cherokee speakers. The Language Department includes the Cherokee translation office; community and online language classes; the Cherokee Language Master ...
Cherokee is an Iroquoian language, and the only Southern Iroquoian language spoken today. Linguists believe that the Cherokee people migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes region [24] about three thousand years ago, bringing with them their language.
Cherokee language, North American Indian language, a member of the Iroquoian family, spoken by the Cherokee (Tsalagi) people. Cherokee was one of the first American Indian languages to have a system of writing devised for it.
This is the English/Cherokee lexicon or word list. We refrain from the use of the word "dictionary" because it does not provide definitions of words; rather, it provides the translation. This lexicon consists of over 7,000 words and will continue to be extended with more Cherokee word listings.
Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) is a Southern Iroquoian language spoken mainly in North Carolina (Tetsas / ᏖᏣᏍ) and Oklahoma (Asgaya gigageyi / ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎩᎦᎨᏱ) and Arkansas (Geiyi / ᎨᎢᏱ) in the USA. Between 1,500 and 2,100 people speak Cherokee, and the majority are over 40 years old. Few children are growing up with the language ...
Cherokee language information and the culture, history, and genealogy of the Cherokee Indians. Includes Cherokee language lessons, a small Cherokee dictionary, the Tsalagi alphabet (syllabary), and a kids' section about the Cherokees.
Cherokee, North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization of the Americas. Their name is derived from a Creek word meaning “people of different speech”; many prefer to be known as Keetoowah or Tsalagi.
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Unlike most other Indians in the American southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee spoke an Iroquoian language. Since the Great Lakes region was the core of Iroquoian language speakers, scholars have theorized that the Cherokee migrated south from that region.
The Cherokee Nation Language Department is committed to preserving and perpetuating the Cherokee language through day to day spoken use and by generating more proficient second-language Cherokee speakers. The Language Department includes the Cherokee translation office; community and online language classes; the Cherokee Language Master ...