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Hiwassee College Alumni
The name Hiwassee is derived from the Cherokee language, Cherokee word ''Ayuhwasi'', meaning "savanna" or "large meadow". The name has been applied to several entities past and present in the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee: Bodies of water * Hiwassee Lake, the reservoir created by Hiwassee Dam * Hiwassee River, a tributary of the Tennessee River in northern Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee Towns * Ducktown, Tennessee, called Hiawassee in the 1840s–1850s * Hiawassee, Georgia, a town * Hiwasse, Arkansas, a town * Great Hiwassee, a Cherokee village once located along the Hiwassee River in Polk County, Tennessee * Hiwassee, North Carolina, a small community adjacent to Hiwassee Dam * Little Hiwassee, a Cherokee village once located along the Hiwassee River in Cherokee County, North Carolina * Hiwassee, Virginia, a census-designated place in Virginia Other * Hiwassee College, a college in Madisonville, Tennessee * Hiwassee Dam, a hyd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherokee Language
file:Cherokee Speakers by County, 2000.png, 350px, Number of speakers file:Lang Status 20-CR.svg, Cherokee is classified as Critically Endangered by UNESCO's ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger'' Cherokee or Tsalagi (, ) is an endangered-to-Moribund language, moribund Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. ''Ethnologue'' states that there were 1,520 Cherokee speakers out of 376,000 Cherokees in 2018, while a tally by the three Cherokee tribes in 2019 recorded about 2,100 speakers. The number of speakers is in decline. The ''Tahlequah Daily Press'' reported in 2019 that most speakers are elderly, about eight fluent speakers die each month, and that only five people under the age of 50 are fluent. The dialect of Cherokee in Oklahoma is "definitely endangered", and the one in North Carolina is "severely endangered" according to UNESCO. The Lower dialect, formerly spoken on the South Carolina–Georgia border, has been extinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
