Cherokee syllabary
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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 illitera
Sequoyah's original syllabary characters, showing both the script forms and the print forms
Bear statue by Charles Saunooke displaying the Sequoyah Syllabary, outside the Museum of the Cherokee People in Cherokee, North Carolina, 2017
Sign in Cherokee, North Carolina
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Cherokee language
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Cherokee, or Tsalagi, is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1,520 Cherokee speakers out of 376,000 Cherokees
Cherokee syllabary
…syllabary (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏙᏗ, romanized: Tsalagi Digohwelodohdi) 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…
Cherokee Bible cover
Translation of Genesis into the Cherokee language, 1856
A sign in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in English and Cherokee (transcription: ᏓᎵᏊ ᎪᏪᎵ ᏧᏂᏍᏚᎢᏍᏗ – "daliquu goweli tsunisduisdi")
Tsali Boulevard (transcription: ᏣᎵ ᏧᏩᏐᎯᏍᏗ – "tsali tsuwasohisdi") in Cherokee, North Carolina