Subject: Re: [Homestead] Algic Languages, was Problem uncovered by foreign leader
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:52:17 -0500
> There is a community not 70 miles from here in Morganton NC where shop
> signs
> and street signs are in English and Cherokee. I've been there to visit
> but
> could not get anyone to talk with me. They would smile politely at my
> attempts
> and then go silent.
Cherokee is one of the few places where a written language rose
independently by a native speaker. I cannot remember but I think it only
happened in three or four places.