I speak Iroquian anyone else does. if you're wondering that's cherokee. i'm cherokee!?

Answer 1

I have never met anyone who spoke Cherokee even though I've known many people who were of Cherokee or part Cherokee ancestry.

You are correct that Cherokee is an Iroquoian language. It is quite different from the Lake Iroquoian languages (Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondeiga, Huron-Wyandot) though.

A North Carolinian linguist of German heritage named David Zeissberger was the first person to recognize the similarities between Cherokee and the Lake Iroquoian languages as early as the 1730's. He published the first English-Cherokee dictionary in 1737.

Unfortunately, Cherokee is an endangered language. Some linguists say that nowadays, any language with fewer than 100,000 speakers is an endangered language.

(Cherokee is the only member of the "Southern " branch of Iroqoian. The other Iroquoian languages be long to the "Lake Iroquoian" branch).