North Carolina Books

Authors

  • Dorothy Hodder

DOI:

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

Abstract

In the 1820s, Sequoyah developed a writing system for the Cherokee
language, which was to become the most famous of the indigenous
Native American alphabets. The system is based on syllables rather
than letters, so that each symbol represents a vowel or a consonant
plus a vowel. The syllabary is a table of these symbols.

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Published

2009-01-21

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 3 (2002)

Section

Columns

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