On Anlantique—discussion of languages and multilingualism in America
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“First of all—incredible and insightful conversations are happening. Found y’all on Tiktok and had to jump on the podcast. Love it, love y’all, thank you for being here.
I’m Cherokee and I work in language revitalization for the tribe and I teach Cherokee to 5th-12th grade. I was raised away from our cultural communities and the last Cherokee speaker died in my family when my mom was 10 years old—I’m the first person in my family to speak the language in three generations. I joined the revitalization movement 6 years ago, got a degree in Cherokee Education and I’ve been with our adult immersion program for the last two years, learning Cherokee all day, Monday through Friday.
It is absolutely a privilege not to have to learn our languages—there are over 750 federally recognized tribes, all with their unique cultures and languages, yet no one speaks the regional language indigenous to their part of the country. Languages hold not only unique world views, but cultural knowledge of land, resources, and medicine. We have stories in Cherokee that simply do not hold the same impact when translated into English.
I’m western Cherokee (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), so our situation isn’t as dire as it is for our Eastern relatives, but it is still dire. We have less than 2000 fluent first language speakers in the west, the majority being over the age of 40, and the majority of those speakers being over the age of 60. In the East, there are less than 200 fluent first language speakers.
A lot of the time when these conversations happen, Indigenous languages are almost always left out of the conversation—which leaves me begging the question—why learn another colonizer language like French or Spanish, why not learn Mvskoke, Jalag, Dinè, Nahuatl, or any of the other many, many beautiful languages our country has to offer?”
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United States of America ·
11/13/21
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