Cherokee is a Southern Iroquoian language now spoken by around 22,500 people in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. In 2005, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation funded a survey whose results indicated that only 460 fluent speakers were then living in Eastern Cherokee communities, with 72 percent of them over the age of 50 and elder speakers dying far more quickly than new speakers were emerging. By 2015 that number was down to 215.
Today the syllabary is still used; efforts are being made to revive both the Cherokee language and Syllabary. The process of revitalizing the language is complex. While it has been spoken for hundreds of years, there is little in written form that can be used for instruction and few people are trained in teaching it.
This dictionary contains over 5,000 English terms with their Cherokee translation and transliteration. It also includes a Cherokee / English index.
We also publish a Cherokee / English Dictionary and a Spanish / Cherokee Dictionary.
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This book is so much better than described! The description of the book's dictionary is clear about English to Cherokee. But it is better! It provides both "Latin" script and Cherokee script translation from English, but ALSO provides Cherokee script to English!
English / Cherokee Dictionary
This dictionary includes a guide to Cherokee Pronunciation and grammar.
