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The Cherokee script was designed in 1821 by Segwoya. The
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alphabet is essentially syllabic, only 6 characters (a e i o s
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u) correspond to Roman letters: the font encodes these to the
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corresponding roman letter. The remaining 79 characters have
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been arbitrarily encoded in the range 38-122; the cherokee
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package provides commands that map each such syllable to the
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appropriate character; for example, Segwoya himself would be
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represented \Cse\Cgwo\Cya. The font is distributed as Metafont
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source; it works very poorly in modern environments, and could
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do with expert attention (if you are interested, please contact
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the CTAN team for details).
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