<font face="courier new,monospace"><font face="georgia,serif">Saving the
language of the Cherokee<br>
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By Rob Reynolds in Americas<br>
on May 15th, 2010<br>
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At a primary school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Native American
nation is fighting hard to keep its ancestral language alive for a new
generation.<br>
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It is a total immersion programme, with all lessons taught in Cherokee.<br>
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Children read and write the language, using a syllabary developed by a
self-taught genius named Sequoyah, who brought literacy to the Cherokee
in the 19th century.<br>
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And a 21st century tool is helping the language of Sequoyah survive: the
Askongodeesk—or as we say in English, the laptop computer.<br>
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