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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.

Subcategories

• Dictionaries

Resources in This Category

• Cherokee Language and History Tapes

  http://www.powersource.com/cherokee/lang.html
  Information for ordering.

• Cherokee Language Lessons

  http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/language/
  Lessons in Cherokee (Tsalagi) from Cherokees of California.

• Cherokee Syllabary

  http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/images/syll.htm
  GIF of Sequoyah's Syllabary with pronunciation guide.

• Freeware Cherokee Font Information

  http://www.atypical.net/Cherokee.html
  A "rustic" Cherokee font available for download.

• Noksi Press

  http://www.ahalenia.com/noksi/index.html
  Preservation and literary resources of Cherokee language books. Basic vocabulary and links.

• Tsalagi (Cherokee) Language

  http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm
  Pronunciation guide, language learning worksheets, and cultural information.

• Tsalagi Language Discussion List

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tsalagi/
  Open membership unmoderated e-mail listserv.

• Wikipedia: Cherokee language

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language
  Article including a phonological inventory and grammatical information.

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