Re: CHAT: "boocoo"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 22:37 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:18:55PM -0700, Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> I've seen "chelokee" and "tseloki" and "tsiloki" as the Creek word.
> ::shrug::
The transcription of the Creek in the etymology of "Cherokee" in my
dictionary is "tciloki" - but there's no accompanying explanation
of the system, so I have no idea how to pronounce it, especially the
"tc". However, I hazard a guess that it is /tSiloki/, in which case
we have /tSiloki/ => /tSE`roki/ => /tsAlAgi/.
For those few of you who can not only decode UTF-8 mail but also
have the Cherokee glyphs in your font, "Tsalagi" written ᏣᎳᎩ
in the Cherokee syllabary. For the rest of you, it looks kind of
like "CWY", but since there are seven different syllables that all
look somewhat like "C" or "G", three that look something like "W",
and two that look something like "Y", that's not terribly helpful. :)
-Mark
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