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What's New Cherokee Language IndexCherokee (Tsalagi) is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system. It is the only Southern Iroquoian language that remains spoken. Cherokee is polysynthetic and places an emphasis on syllables. For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee on the Internet or used poorly intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary. However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to Unicode, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet. The Cherokee dialect spoken by the inhabitants of the Lower Towns in the vecinity of the South Carolina/Georgia border had r as the liquid consonant in its inventory where the contemporary Ani-kutani (DhJWh) dialect spoken in North Carolina and the Oklahoma dialects contain l. As such, the word "Cherokee" when spoken in the language is expressed as Tsa-la-gi (pronounced Jah-la-gee, or Cha-la-gee) by native speakers. The language also lacks p and b.
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