Cherokee syllabary
Writing system invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation.[3] He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary. In his system, each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme; the 85 (originally 86)[4] characters provide a suitable method for writing Cherokee. Although some symbols may resemble Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Glagolitic letters, they are not used to represent the same sounds.
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Cherokee | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 1820s[1] – present[2] |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Cherokee language |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cher (445), Cherokee |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cherokee |
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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