Cherokee – Sequoyah transliteration system
Cherokee virtual keyboard
The Cherokee virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Transliteration system: Sequoyah
The Cherokee syllabary has been devised by Sequoyah, an illiterate silversmith, to write the Cherokee language in 1819. After a lot of efforts and persuasion to make his invention usefulness understood by other people, his work was adopted as the official writing system by the Cherokee Nation in 1825.
Specific rule
- As the Sequoyah Syllabics system does not present any distinction between lower and upper case, the first letter of the first word of each sentence is artificially rendered as a capital letter when transliterated in Latin alphabet.
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Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Adyghe, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Belarusian, Berber, Bulgarian, Georgian, Greek, Inuktitut, Japanese, Russian, and Serbian.