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Cherokee language
Cherokee ( ''Tsalagi Gawonihisdi'') is the Native American Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people. It is the only Southern Iroquoian language and differs significantly from the other Iroquoian languages.〔Feeling, "Dictionary," p. viii〕 Cherokee is a polysynthetic language and uses a unique syllabary writing system.
Today, Cherokee is one of North America's healthiest indigenous languages because extensive documentation of the language exists; it is the Native American language in which the most literature has been published. Such publications include a Cherokee dictionary and grammar as well as translated portions of the New Testament of the Bible from 1850–1951,〔 and the ''Cherokee Phoenix'' (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ, ''Tsalagi Tsulehisanvhi''), the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language.〔LeBeau, Patrik. ''Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History.'' Greenwoord. Westport, CT: 2009. p132.〕〔Woods, Thomas E. ''Exploring American History: Penn, William – Serra, Junípero'' Cavendish. Tarrytown, NY: 2008. p829.〕 Significant numbers of Cherokee speakers of all ages still populate the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina and several counties within the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, significantly Cherokee, Sequoyah, Mayes, Adair, and Delaware. Increasing numbers of Cherokee youth are renewing interest in the traditions, history, and language of their ancestors.〔
Cherokee is reportedly among the more difficult languages for native English speakers to acquire.〔 This is in part due to the polysynthetic nature of the language,〔 meaning that words consist of many parts.〔 Words are constructed to convey an assertion, its context, and a host of connotations about the speaker, the action, and the object of the action. The complexity of the Cherokee language is best exhibited in verbs, which comprise approximately 75% of the language, as opposed to only 25% of the English language.〔 Verbs must contain at minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix.〔Feeling et al., "Verb" p. 16〕
== Classification ==
Cherokee is an Iroquoian language, and the only Southern Iroquoian language spoken today. Linguists believe that the Cherokee people migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes region about three thousand years ago, bringing with them their language. Despite the three-thousand-year geographic separation, the Cherokee language today still shows some similarities to the languages spoken around the Great Lakes, such as Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
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