This project was initiated to compare English and Cherokee versions of the New Testament for the self-education of vocabulary and basic grammer of the Cherokee language.
The images have been parsed into single verse units and are viewed as single chapters loaded onto its own web page. All of these images have been transcribed into UTF-8.
Remember, this is a translated text, there is a high probability that some verses may not translate well or make perfect grammatical sense. Don't assume this to be the ulitmate reference of the Cherokee language. The version of the English New Testament was chosen purely by convenience and the grammer or wording may not match the Cherokee as well as other English versions. The English version was chosen because, as a text document, each verse was on it's own line, regardless of how long of a verse it was. This made it very easy for me to write code to break it down into individual verses. I sure wasn't going to cut and paste all that.
Do not trust the transcription currently posted to be correct. A preliminary check found that 15% of the verses have a typo. Some verses have been proofread and corrected, but not all.
If you are wanting to submit to the site, contact me at the e-mail at the bottom of the page. While most of the work is in proofreading, there are technical problems that still have to be sorted out.
My contact with speakers in Oklahoma is now employed full time and is no longer interested in working with language preservation. The project of recording the New Testament being spoken is currently suspended.
I have created a youtube video generated from a WAV file and a document in syllabary given to me. I have no idea who is speaking, but I took the audio and placed video and subtitles to it. View the video here.
Here is the source code of the most current program I use to convert romantization to cherokee. This isn't the most current version, but it works. cherokee.c
Here is the source code that builds the website, just in case somebody wants to make a similar page. world.c
Here is a modified version of the website code that builds the e-text documents. etext.c
Oh yeah, just to promote a text editor, the entire book was transcribed using VI / VIM
Most recently updated on June 15, 2012.
Online since 9/13/2006
