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05-02-2021, 08:38 #21
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05-02-2021, 10:14 #22
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05-02-2021, 11:14 #23
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Re: What Native Americans Call Other Nationalities
That food history was a bit of a shocker. Imagine your mum not wanting to make vetkoek because 200 years back the English gave them flour in the concentration camps and they still hated vetkoek. A kid will mos never understand it.
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05-02-2021, 14:02 #24
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Re: What Native Americans Call Other Nationalities
Britain did alot to the scots and the Irish too
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05-02-2021, 14:28 #25
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05-02-2021, 19:10 #26
Re: What Native Americans Call Other Nationalities
and here I was expecting more of the likes of...
George Gist (c.1770–1843), was a Native American polymath of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. His achievement was one of the few times in recorded history that a member of a pre-literate people created an original, effective writing system.
After seeing its worth, the people of the Cherokee Nation rapidly began to use his syllabary and officially adopted it in 1825. Within five years, their literacy rate surpassed that of surrounding European-American settlers.
The Cherokee syllabary has had international influence. As diffusion spread, it is believed to have inspired the development of 21 known scripts or writing systems, used in a total of 65 languages, including in North America, Africa, and Asia.
His work has had international influence, encouraging the development of syllabaries for other, previously unwritten languages. The news that an illiterate Cherokee had created a syllabary spread throughout the USA and its territories. A missionary working in northern Alaska read about it and created a syllabary, what has become known as Cree syllabics. This syllabic writing inspired other indigenous groups across Canada to adapt the syllabics to create writing for their languages.
A literate Cherokee emigrated to Liberia, where he discussed his people's syllabary. A Bassa language speaker of Liberia was inspired to create his own syllabary, and other indigenous groups in West Africa followed suit, creating their own syllabaries.
A missionary in China read about the Cree syllabary and was inspired to follow that example in writing a local language in China. The result of the diffusion of his work has been the development of a total of 21 known scripts, which have been used to write more than 65 languages.
This was the Cherokee Sequoyah!live out your imagination , not your history.
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06-02-2021, 06:31 #27
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Re: What Native Americans Call Other Nationalities
What I find interesting is the way the Navajo named people according to characteristics. They did not adopt a given name, but stayed with their own tradition of using a characteristic as a name.
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06-02-2021, 09:12 #28
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06-02-2021, 11:42 #30
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Re: What Native Americans Call Other Nationalities
Yes indeed. Comparable to Mikael Agricola in the 16th century who (quote from Wikipedia) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary Finnish".
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