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The Cherokee Syllabary: A Writing System in Its Own Right

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A 2011 peer-reviewed article by linguist Ellen Cushman in the journal Written Communication, arguing that Samuel Worcester's 1827 print standardization reorganized Sequoyah's original character ordering toward a Latin-alphabet-style logic.

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Author
Ellen Cushman
Publication Year
2011
URL
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ936103
Source Type
Academic Linguistics
Reliability Tier
1
Peer-reviewed journal article by a named linguist specializing in Cherokee writing, indexed at ERIC (EJ936103).
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