article_snippet: A Native American language school for grades 6-12 will open in North Carolina in a bid to keep Cherokee culture alive.
article_snippet: Continuing studies: A Native American language school for grades 6-12 will open in North Carolina in a bid to keep Cherokee culture alive - the New Kituwah Academy has only been open to young students up until now .
article_snippet: From young students earliest years, children learn only in Cherokee at the facility.
article_snippet: Cherokee had no writing system until the early 1800s, when the renowned silversmith Sequoyah wrote a syllabary to put Cherokee sounds on paper.
article_snippet: While English has one symbol for every letter, Cherokee has one symbol for each of Cherokee 80-plus syllables.
article_snippet: Unlike many other languages, which focus on nouns and adjectives, Cherokee focuses on verbs.
article_snippet: Cherokee tribe member Haley Smith, 11, works on an English assignment at New Kituwah Academy in Cherokee .
article_snippet: In this February 10, 2015 photo, a statue of Sequoya, creator of the Cherokee alphabet, stands in front of the New Kituwah Academy in Cherokee, North Carolina .
article_snippet: Other initiatives include Cherokee language programs at public schools and a Cherokee studies program at Western Carolina University, she said.
article_snippet: The Cherokee nation in Oklahoma opened the Cherokee Immersion Charter School in 2002, said Julie Hubbard, a spokeswoman for Cherokees there.
article_snippet: Students start at age three and go through eighth grade, when Students can transfer to a public school or to Sequoyah High School, where the Cherokee immersion students study together, she said.