Researchers race to save the Cherokee language before it's lost forever 

Very true. My goal.

Agreed. I'm Cherokee and I live in Alabama

Everyone's welcome to learn. Never heard anything else....my husband, who is a Middle Eastern Jew, was more than welcome to learn. You can even learn online and meet up with speakers on Zoom. You don't have to be a tribal citizen.

U white

@@arielp7582 Sequoya. Was only part Cherokee. By blood. But was Cherokee in every other way. Many Cherokee in the past were only part by blood. But served as chiefs. In the past,,,

I knew someone (they passed away) that started out his childhood speaking French and Russian, then English when he went to school. His Book of Faces page after his passing looked like the UN. He was an expert in Celtic and Polynesian languages. He spoke over 60 languages, and was fluent in more than a dozen. He also learned the languages of the Cherokee, Algonquin, Lakota, and Navaho. He was my Welsh teacher. One of my classmates also spoke Hebrew and he helped her understand Welsh sentence structure by using Hebrew examples. What I learned from him was not just the Welsh language, but how language tells you about the culture. Welsh has many nouns that are by default plural, and become longer modified words to express that you only have one child. Children is plant and child is plentyn. The opposite is true of baby and babies. Culturally you expect individual babies and groups of children. This applies to trees and many types of animals. The default word for birch or ant is plural. I suspect by learning other languages, learning how the world is seen through other cultures, you redefine and hone how you see the world, and thus how you use language changes. I love seeing things as groups, thinking of children and not a child. One day I would like to learn a real American language like that Tsalagi Gawonihisdi.

My understanding spelling is O'Siyo. Pronunciation is O'Siyo. Lazy talk is Siyo.

Liar

Many of our family members were put up for adoption in the early 19th century we were taken from tribes to be raised as if we were white Americans to eliminate our Native Culture the Mormon church is also tied in to this they stole children and forced them to be in boarding schools ran by their church.

There possibly could be. Based on mother's adoption record.

Your face looks like from mask

Well that's a dumb thing to say.

there’s a difference between helping in a humanitarian effort and “helping” in an attempt to colonize. the least we can do, whether yonegi or cherokee, is help revitalize the language and preserve their culture.