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Conlangery #79: Cherokee (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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The Iroquois Languages of North America

Oklahoma Cherokee has a pretty free word order in the sense that constituent order can be all over the place. The word order within the noun phrase is much stricter. There's an interesting bit of, there's an alternation between H and Glottalstop. You can get metathesis where aspiration appears on constants that used to be unaspirated. This grammar is huge. I'm just picking up some highlights of things that I thought were especially interesting.

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