Talk:ᏣᎳᎩ
Proper noun?[edit]
Isn't this a proper noun? 71.66.97.228 05:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- No. Very few nouns are proper nouns except for those that may have been borrowed from English. —Stephen (Talk) 17:56, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
“Cherokee” in what sense?[edit]
If it is true what is said above in Talk:ᏣᎳᎩ#Proper noun? that "[v]ery few [Cherokee] nouns are proper nouns", what sense of the English word Cherokee does the Cherokee word ᏣᎳᎩ convey — a person, the people, their language, or its syllabary? According to w:Cherokee#Name, "Tsalagi (ᏣᎳᎩ) is sometimes misused as a name for the people; Tsalagi is actually the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) word for the Cherokee language", and yet the entry for ᏣᎳᎩ currently lists the synonyms ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ (aniyvwiya), ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ (aniyvwiyai), and ᎩᏚᏩ (giduwa) which, AFAICT, all refer to the Cherokee people. Which is it? Both? Neither? All four of the English senses? None of the above? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 17:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Pinging Stephen. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 17:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- ᏣᎳᎩ is the Cherokee language. ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ (aniyvwiya), ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ (aniyvwiyai), and ᎩᏚᏩ (giduwa) are the Cherokee people. —Stephen (Talk) 20:17, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Stephen: Thank you for the clarification and glossing. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 20:24, 14 August 2015 (UTC)