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Cherokee Nation language department seeks 100 hours of conversational Cherokee, expands digital curriculum
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Howard Peyton told the Culture Committee the language department is building a conversational-recording initiative, a baby-immersion app and an expanded animated curriculum — including 33 short films due by Sept. 30 — while reporting enrollment and translation progress for recorded interviews.
Howard Peyton of the Cherokee Nation language department told the Culture Committee that the department is pushing to gather a focused corpus of conversational Cherokee and expand learning tools for families and classrooms. “We’re trying our best to get 100 hours before October 1 of just conversational Cherokee,” Peyton said, adding that staff aim to translate and document interviews to identify gaps in the lexicon.
The report to the council said reservation-based community classes had about 100 participants this term and that the department…
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