Language name: | CHEROKEE |
UPSID number: | 6781 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | North American, Keresiouan, Iroquoian |
This language has | 17 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.535541933 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | ? d g dz h S m n l j w i "e a "o u "@~ |
Comment: | North Carolina dialect. Cherokee is spoken in parts of eastern Oklahoma and also in western North Carolina. Clusters of /h/ + voiced consonant are phonetically voiceless counterparts of the voiced C. Such clusters often arise from a metathesis process switching /h, ?/ and a resonant. A more superficial account might posit a whole set of voiceless consonants. |
Source(s): | Bender, E. and Harris, Z.S. 1946. The Phonemes of North Carolina Cherokee. International Journal of American Linguistics 12/1: 14-21. Walker, W. 1975. Cherokee. In Studies in SE Indian Languages. (James M. Crawford, ed.) University of Georgia Press, Athens. Cook, W.H. 1979. A Grammar of North Carolina Cherokee. PhD dissertation, Yale. |