The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

Other languages that use syllabic writing include the Linear B script for Mycenaean Greek ; Cherokee ; Ndjuka, an English-based creole language of Surinam ; and the Vai script of Liberia.

Another theory is that " Cherokee " derives from a Lower Creek word, Ciló-kki, meaning someone who speaks another language.

Unlike most other Indians in the American Southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee spoke an Iroquoian language.

Around 1809 Sequoyah began developing a written form of the Cherokee language.

In 1821, he introduced Cherokee syllabary, the first written syllabic form of an American Indian language outside of Central America.

In August 2010, OICA acquired a letterpress and had the Cherokee syllabary recast to begin printing one-of-a-kind fine art books and prints in the Cherokee language.

The Cherokee speak a Southern Iroquoian language, which is polysynthetic and is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah ().

However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to Unicode, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet.

Because of the polysynthetic nature of the Cherokee language, new and descriptive words in Cherokee are easily constructed to reflect or express modern concepts.

Many words, however, have been borrowed from the English language, such as gasoline, which in Cherokee is ().

In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nu na da ul tsun yi —“ the Place Where They Cried ”.

Its name is from the Cherokee language, which means " edible tree ".

Sequoyah is famous for developing a Cherokee alphabet, making the Cherokee Nation literate in their own language.

94. 8 % spoke English, 2. 1 % Cherokee, 1. 4 % Spanish and 1. 2 % German as their first language.

92. 7 % spoke English, 3. 8 % Spanish and 2. 7 % Cherokee as their first language.

95. 2 % spoke English, 2. 9 % Cherokee and 1. 3 % Spanish as their first language.

95. 3 % spoke English, 2. 1 % Spanish and 1. 5 % Cherokee as their first language.

97. 7 % spoke English and 1. 3 % Cherokee as their first language.

The area had been home to the historic Muscogee-speaking Creek ; Yuchi, people speaking a language isolate ; and Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee for years prior to European colonization.

However, there are exceptions: Colloquial Samoan lacks the coronal, and several North American languages, such as the northern Iroquoian and southern Iroquoian languages ( i. e., Cherokee ), lack the labial.

It destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee.

The county was created on territory of the Cherokee Nation in the nineteenth century, which had encompassed an area of the southern Appalachians, including northeastern Alabama and parts of adjacent present-day Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina.

It destroyed Goshen United Methodist Church twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties.

It destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee.

Located in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Cherokee County contains a varied natural landscape.

An F4 tornado struck from the southwest on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994 at 10: 55 a. m. At 11: 27 a. m., the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties.

A small part of the southern end of the county was probably at one time held by the Creek Indians, while the Cherokee Indians inhabited the rest of the county.

This part of the state is extremely rich in Cherokee history as well as classic southern heritage that is complemented by the foliage of Georgia and Tennessee.

Cherokee is also home to the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

That area was at the southern edge of what became known as the Transylvania Purchase, land purchased in 1775 from the Cherokee by Richard Henderson, a North Carolina land speculator seeking to establish a 14th colony.

Wells is at the junction of U. S. Highway 69 and Farm Road 1247, twenty-three miles south of Rusk in extreme southern Cherokee County.

Bullard is a town in northern Cherokee and southern Smith Counties in the U. S. state of Texas.

European settlers, especially those who resided in the southern English colonies, learned the original recipes and processes for corn dishes from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek, and soon they devised recipes for using cornmeal in breads similar to those made of grains available in Europe.

Rosa laevigata ( Cherokee Rose ) is a white, fragrant rose native to southern China and Taiwan south to Laos and Vietnam, and invasive in the United States.

Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive.

The parkway runs from the southern terminus of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive in Virginia at Rockfish Gap to U. S. Route 441 at Oconaluftee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina.

The Cherokee and allied warriors became a potent Confederate fighting force that kept Union troops out of southern Indian Territory and large parts of north Texas throughout the war.

The Cherokee spread southward along the Ridge and Valley Appalachians, occupying lands reaching to the upper Chattahoochee, which formed the southern boundary of their lands, stretching all the way to the Ohio River.

Twelve to fourteen miles of land ( inhabited at the time by the Cherokee Nation ) separate the lake from the southern boundary of North Carolina.

* Cherokee Strip ( Kansas ), disputed strip of land in southern Kansas

The Cherokee National Forest has two separate sections: a northern region directly north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a southern section directly south of the Smokies.

Past Cherokee, US 441 progresses north through the reservation to the southern extent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a dual-state park situated on the North Carolina-Tennessee border.