Cherokee syllabary
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cherokee-syllabary-188-8712609
title:
Cherokee syllabary
text:
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. 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 characters provide a suitable method for writing Cherokee. The letters resemble characters from other
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description:
Writing system invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
date created:
2004-06-21T18:52:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T19:33:49Z
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