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Old 07-21-08, 04:28 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: The Cherokee Nation

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Originally Posted by shuamort View Post
I had a roommate in college was from northeastern Oklahoma and was part Cherokee. We actually worked on learning the language a bit more in depth for fun (my idea of fun is a bit different, I guess). I can still remember some of it. IIRC:
(O)see-yo: Hello
Dto-hee-chu?: How are you
Tchooch: Lil buddy.
"O see yo" and "O see yoh" is the English Phonetic
the Cherokee phonetic is "o si yo" but its not the only way.


Thats one of the things thats make learning the language so hard is the several ways to pronounce the same word or phrase.

NC meets OK....
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