![]() Students of the Cherokee language learn a Latin transcription of the syllabary to make it easier to learn Cherokee. Syllabaries, common in ancient scripts, were used by the Maya and the Epi-Olmec people of Mesoamerica.īecause a syllabary is less expressive than an alphabetic script, it can be transcribed in an alphabetic script without losing meaning. The Apache and the Navaho languages are among the native American languages that use a Latin alphabet, while Cherokee, Inuiktitut, and Cree are among the languages that use modern syllabaries. ![]() This paper was refereed by the Journal of Electronic Publishing's peer reviewers.Īll the native American languages spoken today are written either in some Latin alphabet, augmented with "accented" letters, or in a syllabary, a set of indivisible syllabic symbols, each of which represents a syllable. ![]()
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