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ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ Cherokee Lessons Introductory Edition Michael W S Joyner ii Dedication To Ray Cochran - without whom’s inspiration in working to keep the Cherokee culture and language alive, even amidst his pain, this work would probably not have come about. Notice Language and culture which are not shared and taught openly and freely will die. If our language and culture die, as a people, so do we. —ᏩᏯᏩᏯ Copyright 2010 - All Rights Reserved ISBN: 978-0-557-68640-7 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. InSummary:1 You are free: • to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work. • to Remix — to adapt the work. 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Kauffman (voice for audio disks, language consultation, flute player) • Sagonige Asaladisgi ᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᎠᏌᎳᏗᏍᎩ (language consultation) • ᏕᎳᎧᏘᏯ ᏗᎵᏔᏕᎩ, ᎠᏁᏢᏗᏍᎩ (language consulation) • Katrina Joyner, Graphics Arts, Bookcover. Appreciation to: Sequoyah - For creating the Syllabary. TotheLYX, XeTEX,Ubuntu, andotherOpenSourceSoftwareprojectsforcreating the software used to generate these materials. http://www.lyx.org/, http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX, http://www.ubuntu.com/, http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source. ToLeanneHintonforherinvaluableworkonmethodologiesforteachinglanguages where fluency is low or non-existent, without whom the structure and inspiration for these materials would not have existed. “How to Teach when the Teacher Isn’t Fluent.” - http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/fac/ hinton.html, To Dr. Pimsleur for “Graduated Interval Recall”, a much changed version of which is used in the audio lessons.2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Graduated_interval_recall The Cherokee Unicode fonts page: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ Cherokee.html Referenced materials: • ᏗᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏃᏪᎸᏍᎦ (Writing Cherokee) - ISBN: 1884655-23-8 • ᏔᎵᏍᎪ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ ᏗᏕᎵᏆᏍᏙᏗ ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎵ (Beginning Cherokee) - ISBN: 0-8061-1463-0 • Cherokee/English Dictionary - ISBN: none 2Theintervalspublishedinhispaperwere: 5seconds,25seconds,2minutes,10minutes,1hour, 5hours,1day,5days,25days,4months,2years. v • Cherokee English / Cherokee Glossary - ISBN: 1-884655-63-7 • Cherokee Parenting Phrases - ISBN: 1-884655-64-5 • Cherokee Study Course - ISBN: 1-882182-02-2 • Conjugation Made Easy / Cherokee Verb Study - ISBN: 1-882182-34-0 • Conversation Starters in Cherokee - ISBN: 1-882182-42-1 • Easy to use Cherokee Tsa La Gi Dictionary - ISBN: none • Possessives in Cherokee Made Easy - ISBN: 1-882182-39-1 • A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee - (http:// kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4212/1/ umi-ku-2613_1.pdf) vi Preface This book and accompanying audio covers basic pronunciation, a few introductory phrases, bound pronouns, basic sentence structure, and introduces some of the requirements of word agreement. Please keep in mind that many of the sentences used in this material are here to learn grammar, not provide examples of everyday speech, and are many times non-sensical from a normal conversational point of view. If you find what you believe to be an error in this material, would like to make a suggestion or comment, or want to obtain the most recent revision, please visit us on the web at: http://www.cherokeelessons.com/. When referencing this material, please be sure to notate the document revision tag: $Revision: 2.58 $. vii viii Contents 1 FirstLesson 1 1.1 Accompanying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Online Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Getting the most out of this material.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 Syllabary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.5 Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.6 “You” vs “You” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.7 Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.8 Let us say the letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.9 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.10Syllabary, with markings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.11Syllabary, without markings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.12Pronunciation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.13Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 SecondLesson 11 2.1 Syllabary Writing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2 Vocabulary Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 Syllabary Speaking Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.4 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ix CONTENTS CONTENTS 3 ThirdLesson 17 3.1 Syllabary Writing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2 Vocabulary Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.3 Pronunciation Practice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.4 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.5 Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.6 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4 FourthLesson 27 4.1 Syllabary Writing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2 Vocabulary Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.3 Pronouns and Verb Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.4 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 5 FifthLesson 39 5.1 Syllabary Writing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 5.2 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 5.3 Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.4 Plurals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.5 One Person vs Many People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.6 One Thing vs Many Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.7 Plural Describing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.8 Plurals Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5.9 It vs Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 5.10Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.11Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6 SixthLesson 63 6.1 Syllabary Writing Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6.2 Cherokee Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6.3 ale/-hno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.4 Vocabulary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.5 Wolf Wears Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 x