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Authors

  • Dorothy Hodder

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v60i3.230

Abstract

In the 1820s, Sequoyah developed a writing system for the Cherokeelanguage, which was to become the most famous of the indigenousNative American alphabets. The system is based on syllables ratherthan letters, so that each symbol represents a vowel or a consonantplus a vowel. The syllabary is a table of these symbols.

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Published

2009-01-21

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 3 (2002)

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