LANGUAGE OF THE TALLIGEWI
When explorers and settlers arrived in the area around the falls of the Ohio (and further west into Indiana), they heard frequent accounts of a nation inhabiting at a great distance up the Missouri River, some three hundred years prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This nation had the manners and appearance resembling the other Indians, but spoke in a Welsh dialect.
Further evidence of an early habitation of ancient Indians believed to be Talligewi was found in the lower Great Lakes region of the United States comes from linguists who have discovered that the Talligewi, cherokee and Iroquoian languages are in many respects similar, as a result of this discovery, many linguists now classify the Cherokees as a branch of the Iroquoian family originating in the north. However, this theory has not been adopted in total by anthropologists.
When explorers and settlers arrived in the area around the falls of the Ohio (and further west into Indiana), they heard frequent accounts of a nation inhabiting at a great distance up the Missouri River, some three hundred years prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This nation had the manners and appearance resembling the other Indians, but spoke in a Welsh dialect.
Further evidence of an early habitation of ancient Indians believed to be Talligewi was found in the lower Great Lakes region of the United States comes from linguists who have discovered that the Talligewi, cherokee and Iroquoian languages are in many respects similar, as a result of this discovery, many linguists now classify the Cherokees as a branch of the Iroquoian family originating in the north. However, this theory has not been adopted in total by anthropologists.