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New efforts are underway to record and preserve our beautiful Cherokee language. ❤️ The Cherokee Nation Language Department has been meeting with Cherokee Speakers to record their conversations and has already recorded 282 Cherokee Speakers speaking for a total of 352.5 hours, with a goal of reaching 10,000 hours. The hope is that these recordings will assist and be a point of reference for second-language learners in the future. Speakers being recorded for this project must be fluent and posses

Cherokee Nation has begun language courses for at-large Cherokee communities across the U.S. as part of a new program for at-large citizens who want to learn their language. This is just one of many ways the Cherokee Nation is working to promote and revitalize our precious Cherokee language. See a schedule of upcoming at-large Cherokee language courses in the comments below ⬇️⬇️ More language classes are being scheduled for our at-large communities. ➡ For questions or more information about thes

This Indigenous leader invented a written language for the Cherokee people without being literate himself. | The History Page