Re: CHAT: "boocoo"
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 16:24 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't know how we got "Cherokee" ['tSEr\@ki]
> out of "Tsalagi" /tsAlAgi/,
That one is easy - it went the other way round. Quote from a Cherokee
webpage:
"People: 'Cherokee' is Creek for 'people with another language'. (It's
really amazing how white settlers always managed to learn some other
tribe's name for any group of Indians. They learned the Creek word for
Cherokee, but not the Creek word for themselves.) Anyway, our original
name for ourselves was Aniyunwiya, but Cherokee is fine too (though we
say it Tsalagi--there's no R in our language). There are about 350,000
Cherokee people today, primarily in Oklahoma, North Carolina, and
Missouri." (From http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/cher.htm)
Amanda
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