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Grammar Notes. Culture Notes. Course Overview Learn Cherokee language basics, from common phrases all the way to more advanced concepts. Cherokee Main Units Our main language course that contains the core content. Enter course. And actually the "se" problem isn't really that bad, all the characters have a very distinct sound that differentiates them.
But it does take training your ears to it. I can hear it only because I still remember parts of the Cherokee I learned when I was a whole lot younger. My issue with the "se" lies in the oddities of the writing system, not the sound itself.
Aspect is tricky, but not completely foreign to me. Circassian and other Caucasian languages especially Ubykh have this as well. Ah, you can blame that on the guy who decided to reform the syllabary. Originally the characters were all very different from each other but when they went to make it a font to type in, it got completely redone to make it easier.
Except as you noted, some are very similar typed out. Written they all look noticeably different but typing them can be ridiculous. Aspect is such an interesting concept to me, coming from languages that don't use it so greatly as indigenous languages seem to I've studied another one before and my head was spinning from the different descriptions.
I like how the information conveyed is very specific, though. Doesn't seem to allow for much misunderstanding. More of a 'I said what I said' quality to speech, rather than 'Well, that's what you heard'. That's awesome! According to Duncan, long Cherokee words contain as much information as an English sentence. In October , their method was granted a U. Duncan estimates that only of the 15, members of the Eastern Band grew up speaking their tribal language, and all are over 55 years old.
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