Cherokee
Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people
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Summary
Cherokee is a natural language[1]. Cherokee draws 4,225 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #86 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: United States[3]
- Instance of: sacred language[4], indigenous language[5], modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Iroquoian languages[7], Indigenous languages of the Americas[8]
- Writing system: Cherokee syllabary[9], Latin script[10]
- Commons category: Cherokee language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: chr[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Cherokee language[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 12,300[14]
- Used by: Cherokee[15]
- Native label: ᏣᎳᎩ ᎧᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ[16], ᏣᎳᎩ[17]
- UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[18]
- Indigenous to: Cherokee[19], Great Smoky Mountains[20], Oklahoma[21], North Carolina[22]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHR[23]
- Ethnologue language status: 8a Moribund[24]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[25], polysynthetic language[26]
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Influence
Things named for Cherokee include Unicoi County[27], a county of Tennessee[28], in United States[29], founded in 1875[30].
Why It Matters
Cherokee has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Cherokee is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]
Entities named for Cherokee include Unicoi County[27], a county of Tennessee[28], in United States[29], founded in 1875[30].