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The Eagle's Revenge"
The Raven Mocker"
How Deer got his Horns
The Wisemen Prophesy
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- Verbs - to
get ready, prepare it
wake up
arise, get up, get out of bed
use it, make use of
to be friends
get off of
get full
ᎤᏉᎴᎦ ukwolega -
S/he is unlucky in hunting; has no luck hunting.
ᎥᏍᎩᎾ ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎤᏙᏓᏆᏓ ᎠᏫ ᎤᏃᎭᎵᏙᎴᎢ ᎠᏎᏃ ᎤᏉᎸᏒᎢ. - That man went deer
hunting all day but had no luck.
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The "Reportative" ending "-e'i" on Cherokee verbs replaces other
tense endings such "v'i" and and "o'i". It is often used in stories
and indicates that the speaker did not actually witness the events
being told. As a past tense form it carries the idea of "this is
what I was told" or "this is what I heard". Note that it is also
used to negate a verb with "gesdi" (E) or "tla" (W). The ᎡᎢ "e'i"
syllables are used in this suffix. In colloquial speech the final
'i' is usually dropped.
Examples:
ᎤᏴᏣ ᎨᏎᎢ (uyvtsa gese'i) "it was cold, I was told."
ᎤᏬᏂᏎᎢ (uwonise'i) "s/he spoke, so I heard."
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language learners at the intermediate-beginner level and above
who've progressed beyond colors and simple nouns and are looking for
material that's a little more advanced. It is recommended to have
learned the some basic words, and a few basics of Cherokee grammar
and how Cherokee verbs are used, and are (mostly) familiar with the
Cherokee Syllabary since a lot of the material on this site is
presented in syllabary.
There are several simple dialogues and also some more advanced
stories on this site, all with vocabulary glosses included. In
addition, you will find some basic explanations of Cherokee grammar
and Verb Pages with many verbs conjugated with all five tense stems.
(Working on getting all of them fleshed out!). Additionally, there
are a few podcasts available to help with the sounds of Cherokee.
The Cherokee represented on this site, especially in the dialogues,
is mostly the Eastern version spoken on the Qualla Boundary in North
Carolina. However many of the Storyteller stories are from Oklahoma
Cherokee sources.
The Raven Rock Dictionary was originally published
in 2015 as the first ever user-friendly dictionary realization of
the word list in Duane King's 1975 dissertation on the Eastern
Cherokee dialect of the Qualla Boundary. Verbs are shown with their
five tense stems as in D. Feeling's & W. Pulte's workhorse Cherokee-English
Dictionary.
The Raven Rock Cherokee-English Dictionary is
currently out of print while it is being revised and updated but you
can still download a free PDF of the most current revision of the RRD
using this link: Click
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