Cherokee

ISO 15924: CherSyllabary1 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

ᎠᏰᎵ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᎤᎾᏓᎴᏓ ᎠᏂᏙᎲᏍᎨᏁᏗ

Rendered using a Noto web font where available; falls back to system fonts.

Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt
LTR value derived from Unicode CLDR script metadata.
Script Properties
Family
Indigenous North American
Geographic origin
North America
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
cher
Cherokee syllabary, invented by Sequoyah (George Guess) c. 1820 for the Cherokee language. One of very few writing systems with a known single creator. Adopted rapidly and still in use.

Unicode Blocks

CherokeeU+13A0Cherokee SupplementU+AB70

2 Unicode blocks contain Cherokee characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
1

Cherokee
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