GLOSSARY OF CHEROKEE WORDS 



The Cherokee hvnguage hii.s the oontiiieiital vowel sounds a, e, i, and 

 71, but lacks o, which is replaced by a deep a. The obscure or short u 

 is fi'equently nasalized, but the nasal sound is seldom heard at the end 

 of a word. The only labial is ///, which occurs in probably not more 

 than half a dozen words in the Upper and Middle dialects, and is 

 entirely al)sent from the Lower dialect, in which w takes its place. 

 The characteristic I of the Upper and Middle dialects becomes /■ in the 

 Lower, but no dialect has both sounds. There is also an aspirated I; 

 l- and f have the oi'dinary sounds of these letters, but g and d are 

 medials, approximating the sounds of k and t, respectively. A fre- 

 cjuent double consonant is As, commonly rendered ch In- the old traders 

 (seep. 1S8, "Dialects")- 



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