ᎣᏏᏉ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ
osiquo iyadvnelidasdi
The Cherokee phrase ᎣᏏᏉ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ (osiquo iyadvnelidasdi) means "I am fine."
This phrase is used as a response to indicate that you are doing well when someone asks about your well-being.
How do you pronounce it?
osiquo iyadvnelidasdi
Did you know?
- The syllabary used to write ᎣᏏᏉ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ was invented by a man named Sequoyah, who was not literate in any language when he began his work.
- The Cherokee language uses a syllabary where each character represents a whole syllable rather than a single letter, meaning the characters in ᎣᏏᏉ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ are read as sounds like 'o' and 'si'.
- Cherokee is a polysynthetic language, which means the phrase ᎣᏏᏉ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ packs complex grammatical information into a few words that would require a full sentence in English.
