Broadcasting In Cherokee<br
/>http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=100301<br
/><br />A Tahlequah radio station is trying to help preserve an
endangered piece of Native American culture. <br /><br />Experts say
the Cherokee language could be extinct in two generations. Tahlequah's
KTLQ is trying to keep it alive. <br /><br />Thursday, Dennis Sixkiller
and David Scott called the Sequoyah High School's state championship
quarterfinal game in Cherokee. <br /><br />Basketball fan BJ Frogg:
"its very important to keep our language alive cause once your
language is gone, its gone. <br /><br />Jim Trickett with KEOK:
"we have a lot of people that still speak the Cherokee language
and it gives them a chance to hear the ball games, they may not
understand English, they understand Cherokee." <br /><br
/>Announcer David Scott says there aren't Cherokee words for some
basketball terms, so they have to improvise. For three pointers, they
use the Cherokee word for the number three. And for coach, they use the
Cherokee word for leader.<br /><br />Created: 3/10/2006<br />Updated:
3/10/2006 10:24:01 AM