Cherokee
Critically endangeredᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi), what its speakers call it
Sequoyah's syllabary made the Cherokee literate in a generation. Today fluent speakers are counted in the hundreds.
Oklahoma & North Carolina, USA ~1,500–2,000 first-language speakers, most over 50
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