Open AccessNorth Carolina Books
Author(s) -
Dorothy Hodder
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
north carolina libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2379-4305
pISSN - 0029-2540
DOI - 10.3776/ncl.v60i3.230
Subject(s) - vowel , symbol (formal) , table (database) , linguistics , history , arithmetic , speech recognition , computer science , mathematics , database , philosophy
In the 1820s, Sequoyah developed a writing system for the Cherokeelanguage, which was to become the most famous of the indigenousNative American alphabets. The system is based on syllables ratherthan letters, so that each symbol represents a vowel or a consonantplus a vowel. The syllabary is a table of these symbols.