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    Cave Markings Tell of Cherokee Life in the Years Before Indian Removal

    Written in the language formalized by Sequoyah, these newly translated inscriptions describe religious practices, including the sport of stickball
    Professor Shellman
    Tampa Bay

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    Interesting ! Hopefully more will come and be deciphered ... Written language... ! Sounds like a rough game but I think there have always been gladiators across the globe...
    Lubbock County Tx

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    • #3
      Cool!
      Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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      • #4
        Great post Tom! The university I attended is heading the Cherokee language Revitalization Project sure wish I took some classes.
        N.C. from the mountains to the sea

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          "Each of the characters represents one syllable, as in the Japanese kana and the Bronze Age Greek Linear B writing systems. The first six characters represent isolated vowel syllables. Characters for combined consonant and vowel syllables then follow.

          The charts below show the syllabary in recitation order, left to right, top to bottom as arranged by Samuel Worcester, along with his commonly used transliterations.
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          "The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language in the late 1810s and early 1820s. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he could not previously read any script.[3] He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into a syllabary. In his system, each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme; the 85 (originally 86)[4] characters provide a suitable method to write Cherokee. Although some symbols resemble Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters, the relationship between symbols and sounds is different."
          Last edited by tomclark; 04-10-2019, 04:33 PM.
          Professor Shellman
          Tampa Bay

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          • Lindenmeier-Man
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            Truly, that looks complicated to me.

          • Lindenmeier-Man
            Lindenmeier-Man commented
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            NA language did a great deal in winning WW 2 . If we would of had this to send messages , it would of really messed with the Japanese !

        • #6
          Thanks Tom. You continue to bring interesting articles for us to read.

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