Oklahoma Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text====Native American languages==== The two most commonly spoken native North American languages are [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] and [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]], with 10,000 Cherokee speakers living within the [[Cherokee Nation]] tribal jurisdiction area of eastern Oklahoma and another 10,000 Choctaw speakers living in the [[Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma|Choctaw Nation]] directly south of the Cherokees.<ref name="Cherokee">{{cite web|title=Cherokee|website=Ethnologue|access-date=April 11, 2014|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730231052/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|archive-date=July 30, 2015}}</ref> Cherokee is an official language in the Cherokee Nation tribal jurisdiction area and in the [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]].<ref name="official" /><ref name="constitution" /><ref name="CARLA">{{cite web| title = The Cherokee Nation & its Language |website=University of Minnesota: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition |date =2008 |url= http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/immersion2008/documents/Peter_L_CherokeeNation.pdf |access-date=May 22, 2014}}</ref> Twenty-five [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Native American languages]] are spoken in Oklahoma,<ref name="languages" /> second only to [[California]]. However, only Cherokee, if any, exhibits some language vitality at present. ''[[Ethnologue]]'' sees Cherokee as [[Endangered language|moribund]] because the only remaining active users of the language are members of the grandparent generation and older. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page