Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Preserving the Cherokee language, one word at a time.

Search the Dictionary Using Cherokee

The free trial version has two root words, GO and HELP that produce more than 2400 word/sentences.

The full version has 60 commonly used root words that produce more than 40,000 word/sentences. View the full list of root words, persons, and tenses.

Start typing the Cherokee word you want to see translated into English.

Do not leave spaces between syllables.

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Use the common phonetics from the syllabary chart of 1828. You can see this on the Dictionary/Syllabary page. Link

Use reverse apostrophe ` for glottal stop.