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    rendering support to display the Cherokee syllabic characters in this article correctly. The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the...
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  • languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called...
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    Before the development of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s, Cherokee was an oral language only. The Cherokee syllabary is a set of written symbols invented...
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    Sequoyah (category Articles containing Cherokee-language text)
    neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in Cherokee. His achievement...
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    The Cherokee clans (Cherokee syllabary:ᏣᎳᎩ ᏓᏂᎳᏍᏓᏢᎢ) are traditional social organizations of Cherokee society. The Cherokee society was historically a matrilineal...
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  • Cherokee syllabary (which in its early years spread rapidly among the Cherokee) but before the invention of the Vai syllabary. One such man, Cherokee...
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    It publishes the Cherokee Phoenix, the tribal newspaper, in both English and Cherokee, using the Sequoyah syllabary. The Cherokee Nation council appropriates...
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    century by the didanvwisgi (Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏅᏫᏍᎩ), Cherokee medicine men, after Sequoyah's creation of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s. Initially only...
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    the Cherokee Nation established a newspaper, in collaboration with Samuel Worcester, a missionary, who cast the type for the Cherokee syllabary. The...
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    1770-1843), a craftsman and polymath who independently created the Cherokee syllabary as an effective writing system for his language. He is one of the...
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    in the Cherokee language, known as the Cherokee syllabary, and in the English language. The Cherokee are members of the Iroquoian language-family of North...
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    one-of-a-kind books and prints in the Cherokee language. The Cherokee language in a written form (known as the Cherokee syllabary) was developed by Sequoyah in...
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    Oconaluftee River in Cherokee Cherokee Central Schools using Cherokee syllabary Member of the Warriors of AniKituhwa, a traditional Eastern Cherokee band dance...
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  • the Cherokee syllabary was part of the process. Part-Cherokee migrants from the US lived in coastal Liberia. After his creation of the syllabary Bukele...
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    a syllabary. Other languages that use true syllabaries include Mycenaean Greek (Linear B) and Indigenous languages of the Americas such as Cherokee. Several...
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    1828, publishing editions in both English and the Cherokee syllabary (also known as the Sequoyah syllabary). It holds historical significance as both the...
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    alphabets. Latin letters served as the basis for the forms of the Cherokee syllabary developed by Sequoyah; however, the sound values are completely different...
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    establish the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper, which was printed in both English and the Cherokee syllabary. The Cherokee gave Worcester...
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    alphabet English alphabet Child systems ISO basic Latin alphabet Cherokee syllabary Scots alphabet Osage alphabet Saanich writing system ISO 15924 ISO...
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    BCE Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Great Lakes Algonquian...
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    be in honor of Sequoyah (1767–1843), who was the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary. An etymological study published in 2012 concluded that Austrian Stephen...
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    early 1820s, the Cherokee syllabary was invented by the silversmith Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly...
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  • by David Brown, also a native Cherokee; this was also circulated in manuscript form, as a type for the Cherokee syllabary had not yet been created. Both...
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    ceremonial complex. Complete with the Council House, Supreme Court, Cherokee syllabary printing press, and the houses of several of the Nation's constitutional...
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  • V
    represents /f/ in some or all positions. In the Latinization of the Cherokee syllabary, ⟨v⟩ represents a nasalized schwa, /ə̃/. In Chinese Pinyin, while...
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    the Cherokee Nation. In 1824, Boudinot collaborated with others in translating the New Testament into Cherokee and having it printed in the syllabary created...
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  • (Arabic) Siôn (Welsh) Sione (Tongan) Soane (Tongan) ᏣᏂ (Tsani) (Cherokee) in Cherokee syllabary Xoán (Galician) Yaḥyā يحيى, (Arabic, Turkish and Persian, for...
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  • 1920s. It has been reported that the alphabet was influenced by the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah. The Vah alphabet has been described as one which...
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    given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken syllables, while logographies assign symbols...
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  • preceded the current Cherokee Nation Cherokee language, spoken by the Cherokee peoples Cherokee syllabary, a writing system for the Cherokee language, invented...
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