Your Name In Cherokee. Your Name In Cherokee. Cherokee Language. Cherokee Language and the Cherokee Indian Tribe (Tsalagi, Tsa-la-gi, Aniyunwiya, Chalaque, Cheroqui) Index of American Indian languages American Indian cultures What's new on our site today! Language: Cherokee--more properly spelled Tsalagi--is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Native Cherokee scholar. 22,000 people speak the Cherokee language today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Though it is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature has been published, the Cherokee language is still in imperiled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Cherokee-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today. Sponsored Links People: 'Cherokee' is Creek for 'people with another language'.
Names: The original tribal name of the Cherokees is Aniyunwiya (also spelled Aniyvwiya, Ahniyvwiya, Aniyuwiya, or Yunwiya.) Cherokee Language Resources Cherokee Indians Fact Sheet. Cherokees of California. Cherokee Language ~ Lesson 1. Cherokee languagee.