The Cherokee Syllabary

An excerpt about the Cherokee Syllabary from First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee
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  • @bluegrassfan23
    @bluegrassfan235 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Gulfmanz

    @Gulfmanz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Language Cherokee KZread

  • @BrandonMarlo_maitreDj
    @BrandonMarlo_maitreDj Жыл бұрын

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge" This is wonderful

  • @MonaLisa-zz5cv
    @MonaLisa-zz5cv3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @malcolmong5488
    @malcolmong54884 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for encouraging me to learn Cherokee

  • @dalekinsey1760
    @dalekinsey17604 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KC17358
    @KC173582 жыл бұрын

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

  • @roderickrayrutledge2740
    @roderickrayrutledge2740 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @firefox2716
    @firefox27163 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Jianju69
    @Jianju692 жыл бұрын

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

  • @frankstafford3666
    @frankstafford36667 жыл бұрын

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

  • @betsywarner8509

    @betsywarner8509

    4 жыл бұрын

    me too

  • @Navoii.
    @Navoii. Жыл бұрын

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

  • @manuelaguilar3754
    @manuelaguilar37543 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SnyderCalderog-
    @SnyderCalderog-5 ай бұрын

    Awesome

  • @daphnerodriguez9980
    @daphnerodriguez99803 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zerozeroone4424
    @zerozeroone44244 жыл бұрын

    Sequoyah was a great grandfather of mine.

  • @alhashimi761
    @alhashimi7612 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Hyperion-5744
    @Hyperion-57442 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sacredgrace707
    @sacredgrace7076 ай бұрын

    🌹

  • @stothemuthafuckinv
    @stothemuthafuckinv4 жыл бұрын

    One of my relatives

  • @Gulfmanz
    @Gulfmanz4 жыл бұрын

    Number and letter

  • @jaimecook8242
    @jaimecook82424 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. I want to learn it. Lol

  • @LF-cj5cq
    @LF-cj5cq3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gaving.griffon2703
    @gaving.griffon27035 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheSilentFool

    @TheSilentFool

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @ZhangtheGreat

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @quabot

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @mattiegonzalez2817

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @lisalutterbach6843

    3 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @99CentRapper
    @99CentRapper5 жыл бұрын

    Hisau ìoaw siķa deaä soi macje ķoia iuśa opa deaskau'ūan pepsa uyhuaī ônoax xža dua sodią ösajs jask pśa gbaus äus paia jask aos siãan porżasu hau.Neaus ösjśsaj äus ìoaw opa dua xža uaills.

  • @seemoore57
    @seemoore57 Жыл бұрын

    the loss of everything

  • @FPEFUNDEM55
    @FPEFUNDEM55 Жыл бұрын

    Bro I can speak Cherokee ᏜᎳᏩᏦᏓ

  • @idkwtfiamdoingwithmylife
    @idkwtfiamdoingwithmylife3 жыл бұрын

    Nah looks like G

  • @oneleotwo
    @oneleotwo4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MonaLisa-zz5cv

    @MonaLisa-zz5cv

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @citrusblast4372

    @citrusblast4372

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MonaLisa-zz5cv

    @MonaLisa-zz5cv

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @Gulfmanz
    @Gulfmanz4 жыл бұрын

    Photos Poop

  • @yonarey272
    @yonarey2727 жыл бұрын

    I love you pigfoot