Order anything by pointing in Cherokee
I would like, this one, how much, the bill: survive any counter or menu. Play the ten Cherokee words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 11 Cherokee phrases in this lesson
- ...α ααα΅αah-gwah-doo-LEE-hah
- I would like...
- α―α HEE-ah
- This one
- α―α³ α’α¦α’?HEE-lah ee-GAH-ee
- How much is it?
- αα¦α α―α³ α’α¦α’?nee-GAH-dah HEE-lah ee-GAH-ee
- The bill, please
- Cardkard
- By card
- α αα³ah-DAY-lah
- In cash
- α αΉah-MAH
- Water
- α§α«KAH-wee
- Coffee
- α€α¦αΆα¬oo-GAH-loh-guh
- Tea
- α€α¬α©α΅oo-woh-GEE-lee
- Beer
- ...αα¨ααΎnee-gay-SUH-nah
- Without...
Literally "I want": α§α« α ααα΅α (KAH-wee ah-gwah-doo-LEE-hah), I would like coffee.
Point and say it.
Literally "how much is it?".
Literally "all of it, how much?". In restaurants in the Cherokee Nation, the bill itself is asked for in English.
Payment is talked about in English in Cherokee communities. There is no everyday Cherokee word for a bank card.
Literally "money", which is how cash is asked for.
Water carries ceremonial weight in Cherokee tradition, including going to water at dawn.
Borrowed from English coffee long ago and fully Cherokee now.
Ugalogv (oo-GAH-loh-guh) is the word for tea and leaf. The final vowel is nasal; the v in the Latin spelling is not an English v sound.
Literally "foam". Many Cherokee families and churches do not drink, so it is a word to know rather than to order.
Literally "not being", placed after the thing left out.