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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+The Cherokee script was designed in 1821 by Segwoya.
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+The alphabet is essentially syllabic, only 6 characters (a e i o s u)
+correspond to Roman letters: the font encodes these to the corresponding
+roman letter. The remaining 79 characters have been arbitrarily encoded
+in the range 38-122; the cherokee package provides commands that map
+each such syllable to the appropriate character; for example, Segwoya
+himself would be represented \Cse\Cgwo\Cya . \ No newline at end of file