Like many other languages, the Cherokee tongue is named after its people, the Cherokee. It is classified under the Iroquoian language family, and it is the only Southern one from the group that is still used.
Like other languages, the Cherokee language is named after its people, the Cherokee. It is part of the Iroquoian language family, and it is the only Southern Native American language from the group that is still used.
The Cherokee language is associated with the South because its speakers reside in the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, although it is believed that the Cherokee originally hailed from the Great Lakes.
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