Tsalagi Iroquoian Natural Languages Linguistics
Tsalagi Iroquoian Natural Languages Linguistics
Tsalagi
Cherokee--more properly spelled Tsalagi--is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah. It is spoken by about 22,000 people primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Though Cherokee is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature being published, it is still in imperilled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Tsalagi-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today.
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- Software for learning Cherokee. You can download a free demo lesson.
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- Series of online Cherokee language lessons.
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- A "rustic" Cherokee font available for download.
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- Article on the language and the development of its unique writing system.
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- Dictionary and syllabary for the dialect of the southern Cherokees (also called Chickamaugas).
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- Resources for the Tsalagi syllabary and Sequoyah the developer of it, font downloads, language lessons and vocabulary lists.
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- Print and online resources, and a Cherokee lexicon and syllabary. Links.
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- GIF of Sequoyah's Syllabary with pronunciation guide.
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- Information for ordering.
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- Cherokee language information and the culture, history and genealogy of the Cherokee Indians.
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- Online language lessons, media, and resources.
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- Preservation and literary resources of Cherokee language books. Basic vocabulary and links.
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- Lessons in Cherokee (Tsalagi) from Cherokees of California.
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- Cherokee lexicon and syllabary, book reviews, and links.
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- A fairly extensive listing of Tsalagi words and their English translations.
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- Open membership unmoderated e-mail listserv.
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