The Cherokee Syllabary

[@bluegrassfan23]

A very challenging language to learn when there is no language partner in the home or neighborhood. Thank you for posting.

[@Gulfmanz]

Language Cherokee KZbin

[@BrandonMarlo_maitreDj]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" This is wonderful

[@dalekinsey1760]

Thank you for this. A Cherokee has shared her time with me for twenty years.It has been a wonderful gift.

[@MonaLisa-zz5cv]

The only language that I know of that we know the first student was a girl: his daughter. I just think that's interesting because there are cultures that are reluctant to educate daughters.

[@roderickrayrutledge2740]

🙏♥️ Thank you. My grandfather was Chief Blue Jacket. Shawnee proud.

[@malcolmong5488]

Thank you for encouraging me to learn Cherokee

[@KC17358]

He was my great great great great great grandpa Rest In Peace 😭

[@firefox2716]

George Guest / Gist / Guess was his english name variants and his Native Name was "Sequoyah" ᏍᏏᏉᏯ

[@frankstafford3666]

This is some what helpful , I'm just learning.😎 Thanks for any information.

[@betsywarner8509]

me too

[@Navoii.]

Good job, Piper MacLean to learn both English and all of this. Very cool video, might try to actually learn it

[@I_am_not_famous]

Awesome

[@Jianju69]

I love this, even if I cannot understand it. Such a beautiful set of glyphs.

[@zerozeroone4424]

Sequoyah was a great grandfather of mine.

[@manuelaguilar3754]

IS VERY INTERESANT POINT,TO LEARN ALL CALIGRAPHICS LETTERS,FANTASTIC.SALUTE Manny EagleN.C..

[@Hyperion-5744]

I found this on google images in cherokee script i was able to transliterate it but can't find any translations for it. Dikalvgviditlv unadenvhi ale wudeligviditlv anehi anitsalagi taline tsunadlastanvhi tsigi ale saquo ayeli unotlvnvhi tsigi hia tsinudi tsalagi ayeli unetlvsvi nasgi iyusdi ayv tsalagiyi ogitsati ayeli tsogilawitsvhi gesvi ugvwali duyugodv usda-yohisdi gesvi ale tsogetsi galvquodi ogadatseli gesvi gvnigesv notsvnehv otsvdisgv udanelisdi ale alihelisdi adanvdadisdi gesvi udanvtiyu gesv ugvwiyu sadegi.

[@daphnerodriguez9980]

THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜,WOW!.

[@alhashimi761]

Would you please explain the meaning of the word Cherokee in this Iraquoian language??

[@sacredgrace707]

🌹

[@jaimecook8242]

Very interesting. I want to learn it. Lol

[@LF-cj5cq]

Rayos los estadounidenses si que cambiaron toda su vida : ( espero que no haigan cambiado su nacionalidad mexicano

[@Gulfmanz]

Number and letter

[@gaving.griffon2703]

Why did he choose a syllabary though? Couldn't Latin script also work?

[@TheSilentFool]

It can be very difficult to convince your fellow countrymen to adopt any tools used by their oppressors, especially when it serves a function the community has never really seen a need for (reading, in this case). Also apparently Cherokee is not a language that transliterates very well.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

To understand why, we have to understand who Sequoyah was. Like almost all Cherokees at the time (other than those who'd already been educated in English), he was illiterate and only fascinated by the whites' ability to talk on paper and transcribe/transmit their language long distances, so he figured it could work for the Cherokee language as well if it had a system like the whites. He didn't even start with a syllabary alphabet; he started by trying to come up with a symbol for every Cherokee word, then by doing so for every Cherokee idea before finally settling on every syllable (ultimately 86 in all).

[@quabot]

1. At the time Sequoia made the alphabet, the Cherokee were not being oppressed. Forget the Leftist garbage narrative. 2. Given that the Roman alphabet has only five vowels, and they change sounds, it’s more accurate to have a syllabary character that denotes the correct sound.

[@mattiegonzalez2817]

it was originally developed that way because its inventor Sequoyah wasn't literate in any Latin scripts, but the syllabary stuck over time because Cherokee, like many indigenous languages of North America, is complex in ways that make a latin alphabet really awkward to use. Cherokee has lots of phonemes (basic vocal units of language) that have no representative letters in the Latin alphabet, and Cherokee's grammar allows for the intensive modification of verbs so ideas that make up entire simple sentences in English only take a single word to convey in Cherokee. This all means Cherokee is substantially longer when it's romanized than when it's written in the syllabary. The syllabary can write words out in half or a third the total number of characters as a romanization can. Another benefit is if you're already fluent in spoken Cherokee, but illiterate (uncommon now but exceptionally common in the 1820s), learning how to write will take you a matter of months with a syllabary rather than years with a latin alphabet. Literacy rates increased so dramatically after the syllabary was adopted throughout the Cherokee tribes in the mid 1820s that they could read and write more than the white Americans who displaced them, and they'd begun publishing Cherokee newspapers within 10 years of the written language being invented.

[@lisalutterbach6843]

Thank you so much for these insights. I. Just learning the basics of Cherokee through the Mango language app. It has spoken examples as well as the syliballic langauge. Very challenging!

[@seemoore57]

the loss of everything

[@FPEFUNDEM55]

Bro I can speak Cherokee ᏜᎳᏩᏦᏓ

[@99CentRapper]

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[@samirawilliams805]

Bruh

[@ArthurMapper]

Nah looks like G

[@oneleotwo]

I speak a Semetic language. This alphabet sounds like my Semetic alphabet.

[@MonaLisa-zz5cv]

The characters were derived from different existing alphabets, but also uses original characters.

[@citrusblast4372]

@@MonaLisa-zz5cvisnt the cyrilic alphabet derived from the latin alphabet?

[@MonaLisa-zz5cv]

@@citrusblast4372 Greek. "Based on the Greek ceremonial script, the original Cyrillic alphabet included the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet and 19 letters for sounds specific to the Slavic language...The Cyrillic alphabet achieved its current form in 1708 during the reign of Peter the Great. He introduced lower case characters (before all letters were written with capital letters) and mandated the use of westernized letter forms, making the modern Cyrillic similar to the modern Latin font." From learnrussian .rt. com

[@yonarey272]

I love you pigfoot

[@Gulfmanz]

Photos Poop

[@knotkool1]

what a waste. a native, "creating", a new writing system in the 1800's is ludicrous, and doesn't make him a polymath. real people were and are writing the american indian languages, are writing them in legible languages. making up squiggles to pretend to be a written language is meaningless, pretentious and just muddies the water.