Explore Cherokee language through a tribal immersion school. Produced by Our State magazine and UNC-TV, with generous support from BB&T. Segment originally aired on 8/5/2010.
I'm learning Cherokee through Mango and Memrise! I'm so happy that there are ways to learn this language, anywhere in the World now through the internet! Yayyyy!!
My great uncle and grandmother spoke it to me. I stopped when the world only saw me as a black woman and treated me badly. I miss this and it breaks my heart when ppl look at me and call me indian woman. I will never forget and I taught my son but, living as a black woman with Tsaligi blood is hard.
Loce Lopez People are so ignorant. I hate the way people have been treating each other. Especially how black people have been treated, and people expect them to just deal with it, you're not allowed to be angry when other black people are abused mentally just because they are black? It's crazy! I will defend anyone being mistreated no matter what their race is, I think everyone should. Anyways I love all good people no matter their color, I just wish we could all understand one another's pain then maybe we could all move on, I think all black people want is for their pain to be recognized not criticized, like they have no right to be angry for what happened to their ancestors. And that goes for the Natives of this country too, they have suffered immensely by the hand of the tyrannical European governments
Amanda Miller The Africans who were sold into slavery were captives of rival African tribes. The Arab Muslim slave trade was even more ubiquitous than the European slave trade. The bottom line is that slavery is evil, it was not only white Europeans who engaged in it. Blacks, whites, Arabs, and even native Americans owned slaves.
To be able to speak the native language both school and at home the parents also have to speak with the children, I'm from vn ( indigenous people ) and we never lost our native language we always speak our language among our community. Keep up and teach the children speak native language,
to can't believe people would punish them for speaking their language that is so heart breaking. I think the Cherokee language is beautiful I have tried to learn it myself.
This is awesome! I wanna learn the Cherokee language and teach my kids. I never learned my Cherokee Heritage. I would love to have my future kids to a school like this. I am learning currently from youtube
Ive just returned from a Cherokee Emersion trip. The depth, importance, and ties between language and culture are so important in defining ones identity... After visiting Kituwah and Cherokee Central School, I only wish other schools had progams like theirs.
Very encouraging. I hope the momentum grows and grows. Sad that so many languages have disappeared in the last 150 years, but what a great blessing that you've caught the Cherokee language before it's too late.
the elder cherokee ppl or great grandparents like cherokee ppl look similar to koreans/mongolians/kazahkstan people. The language itself sounds very similar to korean, it almost seems like a mixture of korean and mongolian..
Neuroplasticity will save our language yet. The younger, the better to learn. I'm grateful that I grew up with Cherokee and English side by side, but a lot of my generation from the early 80s didn't.
Im Aniyunwiya, and im ashamed not to know that language, of my own people. my grand parent left the south and moved north to New York. That were my grandmother had most of my family including my mother. My grand mother fear racial inequalities so she never taught her children our ways I personally want to learn my language and pass it on to my children. To the next generation of my family dosent feel a part of the is missing like i currently feel.
This is so cool. As many Americans, I too have native American blood in me but its so lost now. Im mostly Hispanic and white but when i have kids i would like them to speak Cherokee just to keep the tradition alive. This beautiful language shouldn't die
Siyuu (she-you =hello) I dont know about an app but there are youtube channels that will get you a good start in the vowels, basic words,pronunciation guide for basic words and sentence structure. There are also channels that wll teach you the Tsalagi (Saw-la-gee=Chetokee) Osda Svnoi Adassligi Utsati
Iroquoian culture is truly one of the greatest in the world, up there with Athenian IMO, and it deserves much more attention and praise than it gets. I mean seriously, their confederation is the longest continuously running democracy in human history, and if that alone doesn’t make preserving their culture worthwhile than I don’t know what does
OMG the Welsh went through the same thing! The called it the "Welsh Not." :( My hope is that these languages grow and people are no longer afraid to speak their own beautiful languages. Welsh is growing again, which makes me happy.
I just recently found out I’m half Native American and European, after 18 years of being so confused on what I am. It may be too late for me to learn now but I’m so honored to be a part of this culture, no matter what tribe my family came from.
to can't believe people would punish them for speaking their language that is so heart breaking. I think the Cherokee language is beautiful I have tried to learn it myself.
This video was amazing! I am an ESL teacher and I showed this video to my young students one day during a lesson on Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary. I always tell my students how important it is to know more than one language, and that they should work hard to be proficient in their first language as they learn English. It was so beautiful to see all of these people, young and old, learning to keep this language alive.
Shayo, may the world know to say Gvgeyu over bad or ill things. This feels like home to watch this video & brings fourth a sense of ground like my natural nature. Being half & mixed, yet looking differently paler, I didn't fit into many crowds as a little one, yet carry it with me always. Sincerely Paul~.
Perhaps you could help me. I live in a town in Union County georgia. We have a street spelled Kiutuestia. The locals insist that it is not pronounced (que-tues-tia) as it is spelled. They also can't seem to agree on how it is phonetically I've heard everything from Kalgiske, Cowgiski and Cowguesky. The locals insist that there was once a Cherokee that taught them how to say the word and that the white man messed up the street sign. Are there any Cherokee words that remotely sound like any of these words?
I am Cherokee Easyern Band Cherokee Indain ECBI. And I am learning how to speak my native tongue for it is the oldest language in the land you call America
I seen this conversation in a different video but it's a different dialect so i can't understand all of what it says. Aliga unega ganega tsinala aseno yonega udanvtidodi hinalasoi gigageya hohiyuhvsga iyusdi
Im not very smart it takes me a long time to grasp things how can i lern my language my mother speaked of hram would talk to her in the native tongue but she is only whith us in spirit but befor she left she said that she would see us when we se a monarch butterfly and to this day my brother welcomes one in his house every year this is true i can't make that up peace to all and thank you
It's incredible how the US Government annihilated the indigenious cultures. For instance, in Russia all of countless ethnic groups still speak their languages, at least 50% of them, while with 350.000 Cherokee people in the USA only about 15.000 can speak their language - it's less than 5% ! Moreover, in Russia those were Russians who invented the alphabets to the indigenious people who didn't even know what written language was and had never written anything in their own languages. In the USA it's absolutely those ethnic minorities' business to save something while the US Government, until recently, had been only destroying their cultures and languages.
Is there a free app I can use to learn, I asked my grandfather and aunt if they could help me but they said they couldn't remember most of it because they were shamed for using it...and now their parents are gone and I have no one to teach me and I want to spread it from me to my sons and their sons after...but I cant find anything to teach it to me.....
+BBtheBiTcH I am Native North West Georgian Federally enrolled Ani'Yun'Wiya but look white. many white people have have mixed blood and many do have grandparents who are principal people I am part Irish, part Cherokee and and part Hebrew and am equally proud of all my bloodlines and I do have the DNA test to prove my blood line but I don't hush others if they don't have proof people who are born in Georgis Tennessee, Alabama,North Carolina moer tan likely have Cherokee in their bloodline so stop saying ppl don't need to bring it up if they don't have proof it is rude. Kagoidisdi nole sigwo
+BBtheBiTcH Shut the hell up. You look like just another white person to me. Pale skin is a recessive trait, so you must have a shit load of white blood. You're a hypocrite.
😭😭😭😭😭I am so sorry for the way your ancestors were treated by the government. YES MA'AM YOUNG ONES JUST DO IT ❣❣❣ I LOVE YOU ALL AND MY ANCESTORS WERE CHEROKEE. I wish that I could SPEAK THIS BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE 🙏❤🙋♀️❣❣
Is there a pool for Cherokee speakers (Eastern and Western Bands) to contribute known old words to a lexicon / dictionary, and to collect newly-coined words like slang or jargon or coined words not originally in Cherokee? With many speakers non-fluent, you'd need both the chance to poll fluent speakers to find known vocabulary and grammar, and to try out newly-coined words to help document and form a consensus for additions to the language. Also, over time, this could document dialectal changes or how Cherokee changes (like all languages) over time. My idea here being, not a prescriptive, definitive thing that says this is how you must always say it; but instead a descriptive collection that finds how the majority say things, but would record how minority dialectal or singular speakers say things, to help language study. Likewise, there's a wealth of printed materials going back to the first handwritten and printed Cherokee documents, books, newspapers, etc., so these could be gone through to compile the lexicon also.
Excellently done short video! Thank you so very much for feeling the need, listening to the great Creator's voice and putting in the effort time and energy to bring this about. Especially for the opening segment where you had Robert speak a few words about the past. It wasn't so much about the words themselves allthough they were truth that much be spoken and realized but for the man and his companion, that means the world to me.
this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen my mother was full-blooded Cherokee but my father and sisters came from Scotland I grew up in Atlanta Georgia and I never learn to speak Cherokee only a few things only a few words and I have forgotten them but it is a beautiful language I believe it is a language come from God and I think it is off it brings tears to my eyes to see those children talking in Cherokee and class and it makes me wish I was one of them I would like to find out if I could learn to talk Cherokee at the age of 55 I would study it the rest of my life and try to teach it to my grandchildren I have 9 of them now and anyone that would wish to learn I would teach it to them
Osi yo Osda Hi Tsalagis Tusti tutsiwoni Tsalagi Inena GULIELITSEHA ULIHELIDSI ITSE ADETIYISGUI UWODUHI SECOND GENERATION CHEROKEE THIRD GENERATION CREE
Some of the syllabary are his own design, the rest are adapted English and Greek printing fonts bought on the cheap to save money because the Cherokee Nation didn't have a lot of money to get the original chart printed. As the story goes, he selected the characters that looked the most like his original design.
***** I have read that he designed a numeral set also, but the Council did not see the need for replacing Arabic numerals, which had already been in use in the Nation for some time.
I'm learning Cherokee through Mango and Memrise! I'm so happy that there are ways to learn this language, anywhere in the World now through the internet! Yayyyy!!
My great uncle and grandmother spoke it to me. I stopped when the world only saw me as a black woman and treated me badly. I miss this and it breaks my heart when ppl look at me and call me indian woman. I will never forget and I taught my son but, living as a black woman with Tsaligi blood is hard.
Loce Lopez People are so ignorant. I hate the way people have been treating each other. Especially how black people have been treated, and people expect them to just deal with it, you're not allowed to be angry when other black people are abused mentally just because they are black? It's crazy! I will defend anyone being mistreated no matter what their race is, I think everyone should. Anyways I love all good people no matter their color, I just wish we could all understand one another's pain then maybe we could all move on, I think all black people want is for their pain to be recognized not criticized, like they have no right to be angry for what happened to their ancestors. And that goes for the Natives of this country too, they have suffered immensely by the hand of the tyrannical European governments
Amanda Miller The Africans who were sold into slavery were captives of rival African tribes. The Arab Muslim slave trade was even more ubiquitous than the European slave trade. The bottom line is that slavery is evil, it was not only white Europeans who engaged in it. Blacks, whites, Arabs, and even native Americans owned slaves.
To be able to speak the native language both school and at home the parents also have to speak with the children, I'm from vn ( indigenous people ) and we never lost our native language we always speak our language among our community. Keep up and teach the children speak native language,
John Nguye
I speak a native language. It's native to Europe and I call it English.
Great to see people that value their own language in their own lands. Their ancestors would weep with joy.
to can't believe people would punish them for speaking their language that is so heart breaking. I think the Cherokee language is beautiful I have tried to learn it myself.
I am an American Irishman.....72 . My wife and I are trying to learn Cherokee. We are great ful to our teacher.
That is great teaching the children Cherokee language. In school.
My great grandma a Tsalagi lived in Tennessee, She spoke Tsalagi, but hardly used it. I will learn it though I must.
I love that they are doing this!
This is awesome! I wanna learn the Cherokee language and teach my kids. I never learned my Cherokee Heritage. I would love to have my future kids to a school like this. I am learning currently from youtube
were can I get or go to learn how to speak Cherokee I want to learn my native language PLEASE HELP.
Online lessons:
www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/Language/OnlineLanguageClasses.aspx
Cherokee
were can I get or go to learn how to speak Cherokee I want to learn my native language PLEASE HELP.
Ive just returned from a Cherokee Emersion trip. The depth, importance, and ties between language and culture are so important in defining ones identity... After visiting Kituwah and Cherokee Central School, I only wish other schools had progams like theirs.
Very encouraging. I hope the momentum grows and grows. Sad that so many languages have disappeared in the last 150 years, but what a great blessing that you've caught the Cherokee language before it's too late.
We have immersion schools in Hawai'i for over twenty years. Mahalo to our brothers and sisters who are saving their native language!
the elder cherokee ppl or great grandparents like cherokee ppl look similar to koreans/mongolians/kazahkstan people. The language itself sounds very similar to korean, it almost seems like a mixture of korean and mongolian..
This is truly humbling. Rescuing your own identity in a natural and beautiful way.
thumbs up
You guys are forgetting about us and I dont appreciate that. You act like you forgot where you came from.
I'm one 1/18 Cherokee
wow, ive always been interested in languages like russian but now I have a new interest!
Neuroplasticity will save our language yet. The younger, the better to learn. I'm grateful that I grew up with Cherokee and English side by side, but a lot of my generation from the early 80s didn't.
Im Aniyunwiya, and im ashamed not to know that language, of my own people.
my grand parent left the south and moved north to New York. That were my grandmother had most of my family including my mother. My grand mother fear racial inequalities so she never taught her children our ways I personally want to learn my language and pass it on to my children. To the next generation of my family dosent feel a part of the is missing like i currently feel.
This is they way most African Americans feel too. Our native tongues were also suppressed.
This is so cool. As many Americans, I too have native American blood in me but its so lost now. Im mostly Hispanic and white but when i have kids i would like them to speak Cherokee just to keep the tradition alive. This beautiful language shouldn't die
I want to learn so to speck this language of my Great Grandmother :) I have a cell called Lg so is there a free app for the Cherokee Language?
Siyuu (she-you =hello)
I dont know about an app but there are youtube channels that will get you a good start in the vowels, basic words,pronunciation guide for basic words and sentence structure. There are also channels that wll teach you the Tsalagi (Saw-la-gee=Chetokee)
Osda Svnoi Adassligi Utsati
It's so great to see our language and way of life being preserved for our future generations, Sgi !!!
Iroquoian culture is truly one of the greatest in the world, up there with Athenian IMO, and it deserves much more attention and praise than it gets. I mean seriously, their confederation is the longest continuously running democracy in human history, and if that alone doesn’t make preserving their culture worthwhile than I don’t know what does
Yes!!! Keep learning that Native Language...
I'm working on learning and pronouncing words in Cherokee.
OMG the Welsh went through the same thing! The called it the "Welsh Not." :( My hope is that these languages grow and people are no longer afraid to speak their own beautiful languages. Welsh is growing again, which makes me happy.
I just recently found out I’m half Native American and European, after 18 years of being so confused on what I am. It may be too late for me to learn now but I’m so honored to be a part of this culture, no matter what tribe my family came from.
to can't believe people would punish them for speaking their language that is so heart breaking. I think the Cherokee language is beautiful I have tried to learn it myself.
They did that in France when children spoke Breton too.
♥ this is the first time I have seen Bo Taylor's face! haha... a few years back I was on a regular email list for his lessons!! =D
Cherokee Language.. Cherokee Band.. prescription..The brothers Grimm..🧙🧵🧵🧵
This video was amazing! I am an ESL teacher and I showed this video to my young students one day during a lesson on Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary. I always tell my students how important it is to know more than one language, and that they should work hard to be proficient in their first language as they learn English. It was so beautiful to see all of these people, young and old, learning to keep this language alive.
Shayo, may the world know to say Gvgeyu over bad or ill things.
This feels like home to watch this video & brings fourth a sense of ground like my natural nature.
Being half & mixed, yet looking differently paler, I didn't fit into many crowds as a little one, yet carry it with me always.
Sincerely Paul~.
Beautiful work!! Hope it’s still alive and growing stronger!!! Aho
Perhaps you could help me. I live in a town in Union County georgia. We have a street spelled Kiutuestia. The locals insist that it is not pronounced (que-tues-tia) as it is spelled. They also can't seem to agree on how it is phonetically I've heard everything from Kalgiske, Cowgiski and Cowguesky. The locals insist that there was once a Cherokee that taught them how to say the word and that the white man messed up the street sign. Are there any Cherokee words that remotely sound like any of these words?
I'm Cherokee
I am Cherokee Easyern Band Cherokee Indain ECBI. And I am learning how to speak my native tongue for it is the oldest language in the land you call America
I love this! What a wonderful thing to teach our children.
Okay, so these kids actually speak Cherokee... I'm just speechless.. And I got tears in my eyes.
I had tears of joy listening to these little ones learning the Cherokee language, and listening to the whole podcast. Wado. ♥️
Ꭰꮒᏼꮻꮿ ꮓꮄ ꭴꮒꮼꮒꭿꮝꮧ ꭴꮓꮝꮣ ꭸꮢ ꮣꮄꭼ ꭰꮞꮓ ꭸꮝꮧ ꭶꮎꭶꮄꮕꮩꮧ ᏹꭹ.
I seen this conversation in a different video but it's a different dialect so i can't understand all of what it says.
Aliga unega ganega tsinala aseno yonega udanvtidodi hinalasoi gigageya hohiyuhvsga iyusdi
Im not very smart it takes me a long time to grasp things how can i lern my language my mother speaked of hram would talk to her in the native tongue but she is only whith us in spirit but befor she left she said that she would see us when we se a monarch butterfly and to this day my brother welcomes one in his house every year this is true i can't make that up peace to all and thank you
It's incredible how the US Government annihilated the indigenious cultures. For instance, in Russia all of countless ethnic groups still speak their languages, at least 50% of them, while with 350.000 Cherokee people in the USA only about 15.000 can speak their language - it's less than 5% !
Moreover, in Russia those were Russians who invented the alphabets to the indigenious people who didn't even know what written language was and had never written anything in their own languages. In the USA it's absolutely those ethnic minorities' business to save something while the US Government, until recently, had been only destroying their cultures and languages.
I'm still learning! My papa is proud!
I really love learning ancient languages and when I found out about this language I'm learning it
I am so sorry that happened to you. My great great mother spoke it until the day she died and no one bothered her about it. Her name was America.
Its good that they teach this on the qualla boundary. I lost the language long ago. But am,glad its taught in the schools on,the res,,
I have never felt more at home than I have felt more at Cherokee. I am mixed with this is my home. Please teach me. I crave home
We as Cherokee have no reason to not learn the language. Call it a rebellious attitude for something taken.
Is there a free app I can use to learn, I asked my grandfather and aunt if they could help me but they said they couldn't remember most of it because they were shamed for using it...and now their parents are gone and I have no one to teach me and I want to spread it from me to my sons and their sons after...but I cant find anything to teach it to me.....
Can you teach our kids too the ones that's talking about they black and they really not
I wish I could learn. My Great grandma was Cherokee
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+BBtheBiTcH I am Native North West Georgian Federally enrolled Ani'Yun'Wiya but look white. many white people have have mixed blood and many do have grandparents who are principal people I am part Irish, part Cherokee and and part Hebrew and am equally proud of all my bloodlines and I do have the DNA test to prove my blood line but I don't hush others if they don't have proof people who are born in Georgis Tennessee, Alabama,North Carolina moer tan likely have Cherokee in their bloodline so stop saying ppl don't need to bring it up if they don't have proof it is rude. Kagoidisdi nole sigwo
*****
so, someone will teach me?
How do I start by myself when there is no source?
+BBtheBiTcH Shut the hell up. You look like just another white person to me. Pale skin is a recessive trait, so you must have a shit load of white blood. You're a hypocrite.
This is awesome, so glad they're doing that before the language went extinct as has happened to other languages.
same things happened to the Aborigines
Needsmorecowbell You're so pretty
😭😭😭😭😭I am so sorry for the way your ancestors were treated by the government. YES MA'AM YOUNG ONES JUST DO IT ❣❣❣
I LOVE YOU ALL AND MY ANCESTORS WERE CHEROKEE. I wish that I could SPEAK THIS BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE 🙏❤🙋♀️❣❣
I want to To learn how to speak Cherokee
westo’s/cherokee 🤦🏿♂️
ᎠᏔᎯ
haloo gentleman ,ladies American native are mostly ARAB< TURK
Is there a pool for Cherokee speakers (Eastern and Western Bands) to contribute known old words to a lexicon / dictionary, and to collect newly-coined words like slang or jargon or coined words not originally in Cherokee? With many speakers non-fluent, you'd need both the chance to poll fluent speakers to find known vocabulary and grammar, and to try out newly-coined words to help document and form a consensus for additions to the language. Also, over time, this could document dialectal changes or how Cherokee changes (like all languages) over time. My idea here being, not a prescriptive, definitive thing that says this is how you must always say it; but instead a descriptive collection that finds how the majority say things, but would record how minority dialectal or singular speakers say things, to help language study. Likewise, there's a wealth of printed materials going back to the first handwritten and printed Cherokee documents, books, newspapers, etc., so these could be gone through to compile the lexicon also.
Dualingo needs cherokee
Excellently done short video! Thank you so very much for feeling the need, listening to the great Creator's voice and putting in the effort time and energy to bring this about. Especially for the opening segment where you had Robert speak a few words about the past. It wasn't so much about the words themselves allthough they were truth that much be spoken and realized but for the man and his companion, that means the world to me.
BoTaylor My Friend!!!
This is Great for the people and the language must be learned so it can be carried on forever young and old.
is there a cherokee high school?
this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen my mother was full-blooded Cherokee but my father and sisters came from Scotland I grew up in Atlanta Georgia and I never learn to speak Cherokee only a few things only a few words and I have forgotten them but it is a beautiful language I believe it is a language come from God and I think it is off it brings tears to my eyes to see those children talking in Cherokee and class and it makes me wish I was one of them I would like to find out if I could learn to talk Cherokee at the age of 55 I would study it the rest of my life and try to teach it to my grandchildren I have 9 of them now and anyone that would wish to learn I would teach it to them
Were is this school at
Osi yo
Osda
Hi Tsalagis
Tusti tutsiwoni Tsalagi
Inena
GULIELITSEHA
ULIHELIDSI ITSE ADETIYISGUI
UWODUHI
SECOND GENERATION CHEROKEE
THIRD GENERATION CREE
Glad your keeping your language alive.
Ohio language
It is actually from Georgia and it remains to Oklahoma today...
Where is this school
thank you so much.
I would love to learn the language and wish there were classes here. i have less than 1% cherokee blood but wish i had more
Thanks, I'll look into it then.
Why
Rich culture!
Fantastic!!!
Humanity
Cool
Beautiful spiritual .
Sequoya sure sucked at artistic design. The language looks like random scribbles added to the Latin alphabet.
It was an oral language and the latin alphabet was forced on them. I dont think they had many options.
Some of the syllabary are his own design, the rest are adapted English and Greek printing fonts bought on the cheap to save money because the Cherokee Nation didn't have a lot of money to get the original chart printed. As the story goes, he selected the characters that looked the most like his original design.
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***** I have read that he designed a numeral set also, but the Council did not see the need for replacing Arabic numerals, which had already been in use in the Nation for some time.
Patrick Cу . the Cree syllabari is another option though?
Let it die, let it die! Let it shrivel up and die!
Jona Batna Great movie but not the best place to meme. I wish i spoke it
Jona Batna ha the lorax