Shops and hotels in Cherokee
Open, closed, a bag, the wifi password: the checkout and the front desk. 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 10 Cherokee phrases in this lesson
- ...α‘αααͺ?ay-HAHS-goh
- Do you have...?
- αα’...?HAH-tluh
- Where is...?
- α€ααα’αoo-sdoo-ee-SUH
- Open
- α€ααα oo-SDOO-nuh
- Closed
- α¦ααα’?gah-nay-SAH-ee
- A bag?
- α€α£α α§α¬α©αΆαoo-JAH-tee joo-guh-wah-LOH-dee
- Too expensive
- I have a reservationai hav a re-zer-VAY-shun
- I have a reservation
- Is breakfast included?iz BREK-fust in-KLOO-ded
- Is breakfast included?
- What's the wifi password?wuts the WAI-fai PASS-wurd
- What's the wifi password?
- α°α΅ααͺ...?yay-LEES-goh
- Can I...?
Literally "is there ...?".
The everyday "where?", followed by the place.
Literally "it has been opened". Signs in Tahlequah and Cherokee, North Carolina, are often bilingual.
Literally "it has been shut".
Literally "a basket", the old word for anything you carry goods in.
Literally "the price is a lot".
Hotels and travel happen in English, even among first-language Cherokee speakers.
Said in English. Breakfast itself is α α΅ααα΄α (ah-lees-dah-YUH-dee), a meal, in older speech.
Said in English. The Cherokee Nation has coined computer terms, but everyday speech uses the English ones.
Literally "is it possible ...?".