Broadcasting In Cherokee
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Tahlequah radio station is trying to help preserve an endangered piece
of Native American culture. Experts say the Cherokee language could be
extinct in two generations. Tahlequah's KTLQ is trying to keep it alive.
Thursday, Dennis Sixkiller and David Scott called the Sequoyah High
School's state championship quarterfinal game in Cherokee. Basketball
fan BJ Frogg: "it's very important to keep our language alive cause
once your language is gone, it's gone." Jim Trickett with
KEOK: "we have a lot of people that still speak the Cherokee language
and it gives them a chance to hear the ball games, they may not
understand English, they understand Cherokee."
Announcer David Scott
says there aren't Cherokee words for some basketball terms, so they have
to improvise. For three pointers, they use the Cherokee word for the
number three. And for coach, they use the Cherokee word for leader.
Source: The News on 6
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Special thanks to Cindy McWilliams for passing this on!
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Last updated on March 12, 2006