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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Cheraw Language
I am a member of the Cheraw Indian Nation. Our language has been lost over the years with no record at all of any part of it.
In our very area lived the Lumbee Indians (who were a mixture of Cheraw, PeeDee, Tuscarora, as well as other nations), the Catawba (who many Cheraw joined in the mid 1700's), The Cherokee, the Tuscarora. Most of their languages was Algonkian in base and there are other languages with that same base.
Considering the nomadic nature of our people, and considering the necessity of trade among the different nations, to me it would be reasonable for their languages to mix to some extent if not to a great extent.
Would it be possible to take a base of a certain amount of words from these various languages, who are derived from the same base and build a rudimentary language which could be learned and spoken? If so how many words would be needed?
In our very area lived the Lumbee Indians (who were a mixture of Cheraw, PeeDee, Tuscarora, as well as other nations), the Catawba (who many Cheraw joined in the mid 1700's), The Cherokee, the Tuscarora. Most of their languages was Algonkian in base and there are other languages with that same base.
Considering the nomadic nature of our people, and considering the necessity of trade among the different nations, to me it would be reasonable for their languages to mix to some extent if not to a great extent.
Would it be possible to take a base of a certain amount of words from these various languages, who are derived from the same base and build a rudimentary language which could be learned and spoken? If so how many words would be needed?
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Anonymous with no record at all of any part of it. Here's the problem. If you have no words at all in Cheraw, you have no point of comparison between Cheraw and the other languages that it is related to.
- Anonymous with no record at all of any part of it.
- Here's the problem.
- If you have no words at all in Cheraw, you have no point of comparison between Cheraw and the other languages that it is related to.
- You would probably need at least 50 surviving words of Cheraw even to start the project of reconstructing the language from languages known to be related to it.
- Anonymous Would it be possible to take a base of a certain amount of words from these various languages, which are derived from the same base and build a rudimentary language which could be learned and spoken?
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Anonymouswith no record at all of any part of it.Here's the problem. If you have no words at all in Cheraw, you have no point of comparison between Cheraw and the other languages that it is related to. You would probably need at least 50 surviving words of Cheraw even to start the project of reconstructing the language from languages known to be related to
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The Ani Stohini Unami tribe in sw virginia claim to descend from the Saura and they speak Tla Wilano. Might wanna give it a look.
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The language of southwestern Virginia is called Tla Wilano. It might be associated with a language group farther north but no research has been done on that. There is absolutely no need to piece meal a language together. I am writing a Tla Wilano language grammar and lesson book with a glossary. There are several people you can speak to about learning the language before it dies out. i may be
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