Talk:Cherokee language
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Syllabary
Should the Syllabary have its own page? If no objections I will go ahead and move to Cherokee script - FrancisTyers 02:56, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- That would probably be a good idea, especially if these articles get expanded. (I just created a link to "Cherokee script", and then realized it didn't go anywhere!)
- I made a correction. There are many recorded cases of illiterate people inventing writing systems. Perhaps Sequoyah was the only one in the US, but there's Vai in Liberia, Afaka in Surinam, Hmong in Laos, etc etc, and all are syllabaries. On one Micronesian island, when missionaries introduced the Roman alphabet and said "this is the letter bee", etc., the people completed the script by creating letters for ba, be, bo, bu! --kwami 09:10, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)