>Oh! So "Tsalagi" is the word "Cherokee" mapped into the Cherokee sound
>system, which doesn't have /r\/ (or /S/ or /k/, apparently), and
>we got "Cherokee" from the Creek (while getting "Creek" from someone
>else. Lovely.) So does anyone know how close "Cherokee" is or isn't
>to the original Creek word?
I've seen "chelokee" and "tseloki" and "tsiloki" as the Creek word.
::shrug::
Note: /tsa/ can be [t_sa] or [dZa] depending on the dialect of Tsalagi
spoken.
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