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Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ / Tsalagi Gawonihisdi)
Native to: North America
Region: east Oklahoma; the Great Smoky Mountains and Qualla Boundary in North Carolina Also in Arkansas. and Cherokee community in California.
Ethnicity: Cherokee
Native speakers: 1520 to ~2100 (2018 and 2019)
Language family: Iroquoian

Cherokee 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 Cherokee in 2018, while a tally by the three Cherokee tribes in 2019 recorded ~2,100 speakers. The number of speakers is in decline. About 8 fluent speakers die each month, and only a handful of people under 40 are fluent. The dialect of Cherokee in Oklahoma is "definitely endangered", and the one in North Carolina is "severely endangered" according to UNESCO. The Lower dialect, formerly spoken on the South Carolina–Georgia border, has been extinct since about 1900. The dire situation regarding the future of the two remaining dialects prompted the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a state of emergency in June 2019, with a call to enhance revitalization efforts.

Around 200 speakers of the Eastern (also referred to as the Middle or Kituwah) dialect remain in North Carolina and language preservation efforts include the New Kituwah Academy, a bilingual immersion school. The largest remaining group of Cherokee speakers is centered around Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where the Western (Overhill or Otali) dialect predominates. The Cherokee Immersion School (Tsalagi Tsunadeloquasdi) in Tahlequah serves children in federally recognized tribes from pre-school up to grade 6.

Links
Information about the Cherokee language and syllabary
https://youtu.be/V93B7Ex9uhU
http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language
http://sheikhjahbooty.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-mystery-of-why-the-cherokee-syllabary-sucks/
http://www.enformy.com/dma-ls05.htm
http://www.culturev.com/cherokee/cherokee.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/tsasuyeda
http://tsasuyed.blogspot.com
http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/Cherokee/CherokeeRecordings/language/Taylor
https://jalagigawoni.gnomio.com
http://www.manataka.org/page122.html
http://www.cherokeedictionary.net
http://public.csusm.edu/public/raven/cherokee.dir/cherlexi.html
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/cherlyn/onefeather/id7.html
http://www.ctc.volant.org/cherokee/Mirror/cherokeewords.html
http://www.manataka.org/page122.html
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-cherokee/en/chr/
http://www.cherokeelessons.com/Cherokee-Language-Numbers-Ordinals/
http://learn-a-language.wonderhowto.com/how-to/count-say-numbers-cherokee-255860/
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cherokee.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
http://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/cherokee/sequoyah/
http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org
http://www.auburn.edu/outreach/dl/echota/
http://www.cherokeeobserver.org
http://www.nativecollections.com/LanguageCourses.html
http://chenocetah.wordpress.com

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