23 Facts About Cherokee language

The largest remaining group of Cherokee language speakers is centered around Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where the Western dialect predominates.

Linguists believe that the Cherokee people migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes region about three thousand years ago, bringing with them their language.

Cherokee language was exposed to English literacy through his white father.

Cherokee language spent a year on this effort, leaving his fields unplanted, so that his friends and neighbors thought he had lost his mind.

Cherokee language's wife is said to have burned his initial work, believing it to be witchcraft.

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Cherokee language finally realized that this approach was impractical because it would require too many pictures to be remembered.

Cherokee language then tried making a symbol for every idea, but this caused too many problems to be practical.

Cherokee language traveled to the Indian Reserves in the Arkansaw Territory where some Cherokee had settled.

In 1826, the Cherokee National Council commissioned George Lowrey and David Brown to translate and print eight copies of the laws of the Cherokee Nation in the new Cherokee language typeface using Sequoyah's system, but not his original self-created handwritten syllable glyphs.

In 1824, the General Council of the Eastern Cherokee language awarded Sequoyah a large silver medal in honor of the syllabary.

Eastern Band Principal Chief Richard Sneed, who along with other Cherokee leaders worked with Motorola on the development, considered this an effort to preserve the language.

In 2019, the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes declared a state of emergency for the language due to the threat of it going extinct, calling for the enhancement of revitalization programs.

Cherokee language is "definitely endangered" in Oklahoma and "severely endangered" in North Carolina according to UNESCO.

WCU and the EBCI have initiated a ten-year language revitalization plan consisting of: a continuation of the improvement and expansion of the EBCI Atse Kituwah Cherokee Language Immersion School, continued development of Cherokee language learning resources, and building of Western Carolina University programs to offer a more comprehensive language training curriculum.

Cherokee language makes the distinction between inclusive and exclusive pronouns in the first person dual and plural.

Some Cherokee language verbs require special classifiers which denote a physical property of the direct object.

Cherokee language is written in an 85-character syllabary invented by Sequoyah .

Two other scripts used to write Cherokee language are a simple Latin transliteration and a more precise system with Diacritical marks.

Cherokee language played a key role in the development of Cherokee printing from 1828 until his death in 1859.

Cherokee language was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 1999 with the release of version 3.

Several free Cherokee language fonts are available including Digohweli, Donisiladv, and Noto Sans Cherokee language.

The Cherokee language council voted not to adopt Sequoyah's numbering system.

Polysynthetic nature of the Cherokee language enables the language to develop new descriptive words in Cherokee to reflect or express new concepts.