#ᏣᎳᎩ

[xylographica]

the frog swallows the sun

[akayv]

Reposting because Tumblr is Not having the other photoset of this thang

Cherokee Double Wall Basket Purse

ᎯᎠ ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᏬᏢᏅ - I made this basket!

ᎦᎵᏉᎩ ᎢᏳᏟᎶᏓ - 7 hours

Gauge 3 round reed, 1/2" flat reed belt, some half oval reed at the base. Gauge 2 round reed bow.

An experimental commission! Basket itself is about 10 inches deep. Thrifted the shoulder chain from a belt. 🤔 Going to look into this more since I need the income and I like the direction of making these more accessible/ easy to use.

[purpledamonarch]

ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏓ, ᎠᎦᏍᎦ ᏓᏆᏙᎥ ᏔᎵᏍᎦ ᏌᏊ ᏯᏩᏓᏘᏴᏛ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ ᎣᎦᎳᎰᎻ ᏥᏁᎳ.

Hello everyone, my name is Rain, I'm 21 years old. I'm Cherokee from Oklahoma, and I'm a full time student currently with no job. I have art commissions open, but if anyone feels like tossing some money my way my cashapp is $RaggedyRain.

ᎭᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᎢᎦ

Happy Indigenous People's Day

ᏩᏙ

Thank you.

[litlestpinkmoon]

I want to learn the Cherokee language

My mother speaks a fair amount of Cherokee and Gaelic, so does my sister, grandmother and most members of my family.

We’ll likely be going to visit family on the reservation this summer, and while obviously they weren’t all only speaking Cherokee, it still feels weird being the only one who doesn’t speak any of it.

Are there any good ( free ) resources? I’ve heard of an online children’s show, I just can’t find it anywhere as I don’t remember the name. Any help would be appreciated!

[panther-os]

Kama - noun, Mando'a; belt-spat, battle-skirt

Kamama (ᎧᎹᎹ) - noun, Tsalagi; butterfly

Clones with butterfly wings on their butts

that is all

[saucedlx]

Pixel Font: Feedback Appreciated!

So I'm making a pixel font, where I try to make letter bodies 7 tall or less. One of my goals is for it to support a wide variety of writing systems. But because this includes scripts I'm not familiar with, it's hard for me to get a feel for what looks right or wrong in the letters I've drawn. So if you see this and you speak a language that uses one of these writing systems, or consider yourself familiar with them for any reason, I would appreciate any feedback you could give. My main focus is in making it readable within the font's limitations; I would like to make it look natural and good-looking for the standards of that writing system, but if that's not possible with my limitations then that's alright.

Somewhat-complete scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Kana, Ge'ez/Amharic, Hangul, Hebrew, Tsalagi/Cherokee, Armenian.

WIP scripts: Devanagari

Sample Images:

Again, if you regularly use any of these writing systems and you want to give feedback, I would appreciate it very much!

List of edits since the original post was made:

-Adjusted some glyphs to improve legibility for Armenian & Hebrew

-Fixed ligature encoding in Arabic

(also standalone ه is narrower now)

[spaceysoupy]

Alitsanosga pronouns guide

I use the pronoun set hi’a/vsgina/utseli/utseli/uwasa. These are pronouns in my Indigenous language, and unlike english, all our pronouns and pronoun prefixes are entirely neutral!

To me, using these pronouns is an act of decolonization. It is refusing to accept this new binary as it is forced upon me and instead carving my own path. It’s done with no small amount of spite to everyone who tried to fit me neatly into he or she or those who insisted I was other.

It is very important to me to use these. If you are having trouble or there is an access issue, please talk to me and we can work something out.

How to use and pronounce them!

Subjective: hi’a

Pronounced “hee-ah”

IPA: /hiʔa/

Syllabary ᎯᎠ

hiɂa is pronounced with a glottal stop, which is the sound (or lack of) in some english words like the sound between “uh-oh”

I am choosing to use an apostrophe to denote the glottal stop as english keyboards do not have a glottal stop.

Objective: vsgina

Pronounced “uh-shuh-gee-nah” with a hard g.

IPA: /ə̃ʔʂgina/

Syllabary ᎥᏍᎩᎾ

The “v” syllable is a nasalized schwa, but difficult to do for English speakers. Think of it like the “uh” at the end of “pizza” and don’t worry if you can’t do it properly.

Possessive determiner: utseli

Pronounced “oo-zay-lee”

IPA: /ʉt͡seli/

Syllabary ᎤᏤᎵ

Speakers of the Otali dialect may pronounce it as “oo-jay-lee” and this is also correct

Possessive pronoun: utseli

Pronounced same as the possessive determiner “oo-zay-lee”

IPA: /ʉt͡seli/

Syllabary ᎤᏤᎵ

Reflexive: uwasa

Pronounced “oo-wah-shah”

IPA: /ʉwaʂa/

Syllabary ᎤᏩᏌ

Speakers of Otali dialect may pronounce it as “oo-wah-sah” and this is also correct. The invasive h is characteristic to the Kituwah dialect.

Also please do not call these “neopronouns” when referring to them/how I use them. These pronouns are older than singular he/she. Some Tsalagi use similar sets and some use english pronouns, this is just my preference.

That’s it! Let me know if you have questions, need help, or anything. If there’s an access barrier I am very willing to work with people on that but so far have had no issues.

[thesauruschampion2002]

It's me, boy, I'm the thesaurus! 🍉 ♪

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This is my language side-blog, my main is @johnwicklover1999

Languages are a special interest of mine (∞), so I study them. I'm just bad at consistently studying, so I've elected to whine about it on a blog.

langblr | studyblr | [language] journaling

Languages I attempt to learn are in the tags ♥️

Bonus information ☟

The "other" tag is for languages I'm not fully committed to or ones I have interest in, including; Arabic, Portugese, Korean, Italian, and Hindi

It > He

I'm very mixed, and I study some languages to reconnect to culture =)

- I'm blk, yt, ntv american + ✡︎

This blog is about languages! I don't really want anyone who is a terf, a zionist, or otherwise on my blog(s)!

Yahoo!

[polyglot-thought]

[Cherokee->English] Vocabulary / Notes June 13th 2023

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ᏗᎦᏙᎵ [digadoli] eyes

ᎠᎦᏙᎵ [agadoli] eye

Source:

https://www.wordsense.eu/ᏗᎦᏙᎵ/

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ᏏᏉᏯ (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᏣᎳᎩ)

[Si⁠quo⁠ya⁠ ⁠(⁠s⁠si⁠quo⁠ya⁠ ⁠S⁠s⁠i⁠q⁠u⁠o⁠y⁠a⁠ ⁠ha⁠wi⁠na⁠di⁠tlv⁠ ⁠tsa⁠la⁠gi⁠)]

Siquoya (Ssiquoya in Cherokee)

Sources:

https://www.cherokeedictionary.net/share/96340

https://chr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ᏍᏏᏉᏯ

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

[xylographica]

Gift

From the Cherokee First Fire story

[akayv]

ᏜᎢᏓ - Dla'ida

8/19-9/30

Pokeberry dyed reeds.

Poke is a plant my grandmother and I would forage growing up, the plant is toxic so it has to be prepared right, you cannot eat the berries at all.

The ratio for pokeberry is 25:1 😊 had some trial and error with this. Foraged the berries myself and the second go around was more of a berry mash than a dye mix.

[sheepskinnedgoat]

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE

I love this so much I don't even have the words to express my gratitude to the person who sent this to me. I can't really read any of it but that's okay, it's in my hands and I can stare at it and love it and maybe someday, I'll be able to read some of it.

[spidersfrom-mars77]

Siyo ginali 😃 I wanna tell you you're actually spelling Tli-ta-gi instead of Tsa-La-Gi. I know it's harder to differentiate them on the digital keyboard, ᏣᎳᎩ (for copy/paste purposes)

Thanks! I’m learning and this helped me alot. It’s so much harder on the keyboard

[higeyutsa]

Bug -- tsisgoya

ᏥᏍᎪᏯ

(Tsigoya ᏥᎪᏯ is less common)

[rootytootzoot]

I have revived this tumblr account in the name of violence. Under new management, this account is now purely dedicated to personal degrees of chaos.

About me:

I’m studying Political Science bc I hate myself but also bc I’m secretly a softie (it’s not a secret)

Leftist

I like to write and sometimes create art but I do it for the vibes. I also like to do crafts bc hands

I’m queer af. I’m transfem, She/They who’s life goal is to be bimbofied

I love to play dnd. This is a personality trait.

AuDHD/physically disabled and loud about both

Indigequeer. ᏣᎳᎩ

I like the color pink. This is also a personality trait.

Warnings:

There will be horny posting.

THIS MEANS NO MINORS PLEASE

Anywayyyyyyy

[spaceysoupy]

Sweetbitter

“We once had burning fingertips on soft mornings.

Gloves of ice cold water to protect from the fire.

It hurt anyway. We didn’t care.

We are creating, you whispered, we are creation.

Honey dripping over open wounds, we relished the sting and our time together. They stung just the same.

Hands held together, stuck together, for a time that ended far too soon.

A little bit of sweetness for the bitter soon to come.”

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[image ID: A square image of a drawing of a hand facing palm side down outlined in golden yellow on a cream yellow background. The hand is covered in a golden orange honey color and has multiple pale pinkish red scratches and sores. Text on the image reads "We once had burning fingertips on soft mornings. Gloves of ice cold water to protect from the fire. It hurt anyway. We didn't care. We are creating, you whispered, we are creation. Honey dripping over open wounds, we relished the sting and our time together. They stung just the same. Hands held together, stuck together, for a time that ended far too soon. A little bit of sweetness for the bitter soon to come." End text. Copyright “Alitsanosga Nebulae @spaceysoupy” pronounced Ah Lee Zah No-Shh Gah end image description]