Professor John McWhorter Discusses The Original American Languages

In the 1820s, an American Indian named Sequoyah brought literacy to the Cherokee using the English alphabet—but he didn't know which letters made which sounds. The result was quite a jumble compared to modern English, but oddly enough it caught on locally and in Liberia. Take a trip to northern New York and unlearn everything you know about the alphabet.

Presented by John McWhorter
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0:00 McWhorter Discovers Iroquoian Through Fingerlake Wine
1:33 Cherokee Writing System Keeps Language Alive
3:00 Sequoyah Creates First Iroquoian Writing System
5:08 Sequoyah´s Cherokee Alphabet Success Reaches Liberia
6:34 Iroquoian Languages Share a Unique Attribute
7:55 Prefixes Reveal Disparate Languages To Be a Family
14:26 Tanoan Language Kiowa Exhibits Bizarre Vocabulary
17:17 Colonialism Degrades Early American Languages
18:25 Gros Ventre Example Displays Proof of Degradation
22:07 Constructive Breakdown of Languages Create Pidgins
25:00 Pidgins Pop Up Across The Colonial US
26:13 Pidgin Becomes Standard Communication With Outsiders

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