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Cherokee or Tsalagi (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, romanized: Tsalagi Gawonihisdi, IPA: [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to- moribund [a] Iroquoian language [4] and the native language of the Cherokee people.
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Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi) 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.
Cherokee or Tsalagi is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1,520 Cherokee speakers out of 376,000 Cherokees in 2018, while a tally by the three Cherokee tribes in 2019 recorded about 2,100 speakers. The number of speakers is in decline.
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. Learn more about the Cherokee language.
Cherokee Tribe: Cherokee Indian books. 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.
