Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> I think the *original* Cherokee syllables looked a little like this.
> That is, the ones first drawn up by Sequoyah. They were changed when he
> went to a printer to start using them, since the printer of course
> didn't have sorts for them, so they went through his pile of oddball
> letters and maybe took a file to some of them...

> I'll have to see if I can find a picture of the originals.

There is a smallish image of some of the original Cherokee forms here

http://www.tiro.com/Plantagenet/plantagenet_index3.html

and this will eventually link to a paper that my colleague Ross Mills (designer of the
Cherokee typeface that now ships with Mac OS X) is writing. He will be presenting this
paper at the St Bride Printing Library conference in October.

John Hudson

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