There are more than 6,000 languages in the world and only about 100 of these developed their own writing system. For most of these writing systems, we know relatively little about the individuals who ...

Cherokee is spoken as a first language by fewer than 5,000 people, yet in recent years it has experienced a remarkable revival as a second language. But what happens when entire generations may have ...

Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of ...

Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system: Before anyone understood what he was doing, Sequoyah was just a man making marks on paper, marks that looked meaningless to everyone around him. To others, it ...

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FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have finally interpreted Cherokee tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave hundreds of years ago. News outlets report the inscriptions ...

A team of scholars translated Cherokee inscriptions on Alabama cave walls and determined some of them were written in the 19th century as a ceremonial part of stickball games. A study published this ...

Creating an entire writing system is quite an accomplishment. Creating a writing system when you have never been able to read or write is even more remarkable, but that is exactly what the man called ...

A man the Cherokee Nation calls the “most influential Linguist since Sequoyah,” will be laid to rest on Tuesday. Dr. Durbin Feeling passed away last week at the age of 74. He is remembered for his ...