Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language.
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10 Facts About Cherokee syllabary
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Cherokee syllabary first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into a syllabary.
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Cherokee syllabary played a key role in the development of Cherokee printing from 1828 until his death in 1859.
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Some Cherokee syllabary words pose a problem for transliteration software because they contain adjacent pairs of single letter symbols that would be combined when doing the back-conversion from Latin script to Cherokee syllabary.
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Cherokee syllabary worked on the syllabary for twelve years before completion and dropped or modified most of the characters he originally created.
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Some of Sequoyah's most learned contemporaries immediately understood that the Cherokee syllabary was a great invention.
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Cherokee syllabary recognized that even though the Cherokee student must learn 85 characters instead of 26 for English, the Cherokee could read immediately after learning all the symbols.
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An increasing corpus of children's literature is printed in Cherokee syllabary to meet the needs of students in Cherokee syllabary language immersion schools in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
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Cherokee syllabary was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 1999 with the release of version 3.
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Several free Cherokee syllabary fonts are available including Digohweli, Donisiladv, and Noto Sans Cherokee syllabary.
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