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Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Cherokee

SOURCE

Universal Human Rights Initiative

Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

Ethnologue states that there were 1,520 Cherokee speakers out of 376,000 Cherokee in 2018

USAGE BY COUNTRY

United States

BACKGROUND

​Cherokee or Tsalagi is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people.