December 25, 2012

Conlangery #79: Cherokee (natlang)

54 minutes

In our last full episode of 2012, we talk all about Cherokee.

Top of Show Greeting: Emberyad

Announcements:

Profile of John Quijada in The New Yorker

Jim Henry Medical Trust

Featured NATLANG: Cherokee

Reference Grammar

Lexicon Valley on Sequoyah’s syllabary

Short lesson on classifiers

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Good Afternoon,

I just finished listening to you podcast on Khangabyagon and it struck me that you all said that this was a conlang for a ‘magical language’.

And I know from Arika Okrent’s book that Laadan is for expressing the views of women better.

So I would like to recommend an episode where you all just have some fun going over the different conlangs that have a stated purpose or philosophy nothing all that in-depth but a broad set touching on what appears to be how that purpose is being addressed, detailed vocabulary or certain features of the language.

Enjoy,

Timothy Wofford

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