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LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories) cover image

Brian K. Hudson | Virtually Cherokee

LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

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How Spider Grew Up in the Cherokee Language

Spider was created by generating random strings with every possible combination and order of syllables in the Cherokee language. Hundreds of fluent speakers who volunteered to tell stories to spider. Spider would repeat words during the telling of these stories, words she thought were real, not just usti talk. For three syllable words, that is, for most of those so-called words are nonsense. But the nonsense words still use the sounds of the language they are babbled in.

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