Cherokee

:Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation)

Language and writing system

Main article: Cherokee language

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The Cherokee speak an Iroquoian language which is polysynthetic and is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah. For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee on the Internet or used poorly intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary. However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to Unicode, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet. It is now believed that a more ancient Syllabary that predated Sequoyah and may have inspired his great work for the Cherokee people was handed down through the Ah-ni-ku-ta-ni, an ancient priesthood of the Cherokee people. There is now a Cherokee-language Wikipedia.

Related Topics:
Cherokee - Iroquoian - Polysynthetic - Syllabary - Sequoyah - Unicode - Ah-ni-ku-ta-ni

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