Cherokee syllabary

Cherokee
Tsa-la-gi ("Cherokee") written in the Cherokee syllabary
Script type	Syllabary
Time period	1820s[1] – present[2]
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Cherokee language
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Cher (445), ​Cherokee
Unicode
Unicode alias	Cherokee
Unicode range	U+13A0–U+13FF Cherokee U+AB70–U+ABBF Cherokee Supplement
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation.^[3] He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary. In his system, each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme; the 85 (originally 86)^[4] characters provide a suitable method for writing Cherokee. Although some symbols resemble Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Glagolitic letters, they are not used to represent the same sounds.