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Introduction

Sequoyah is credited with inventing the Cherokee syllabary in the early 1800s. It is used to write Cherokee / Tsalagi. Most Cherokee is now written using the Latin alphabet. Fluent, mother-tongue speakers of the language usually prefer the Cherokee syllabary to Latin transliteration. Many older Cherokee speakers, in fact, are unable to read Cherokee written with Latin characters--even those who use the Latin alphabet to write English.

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of Aboriginal Sans at 23pt Aboriginal Sans    [ show all samples ]  (absans8_51.ttf from absans.zip)
Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters with diacritics
Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com
Stats: Version 8.51 2004 has 4,858 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs
Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of Aboriginal Serif at 23pt Aboriginal Serif    [ show all samples ]  (abserif4_5.ttf from abserif.zip)
Note: Extensive coverage of Latin & Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area).
Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com
Stats: Version 1.000 2004 initial release has 4,998 glyphs and 3 kerning pairs
Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of CherokeeLSU at 24pt CherokeeLSU    [ show all samples ]
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: Cherokee, Latin
Sample of Code2000 at 24pt Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
Sample of Everson Mono Unicode at 30pt Everson Mono Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (evermono.ttf)
Source: Shareware from Everson Mono.
Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese
unusable font Hindsight Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf)
Note: Unusable for Cherokee due to incomplete coverage.
Source: Free download from the History/Hindsight page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site.
Stats: Version 1.00 January 2001 has 2,894 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
Sample of Marin at 28pt Marin    [ show all samples ]  (Marin.ttf, MarinItalic.ttf, MarinCaps.ttf, and MarinCapsItalic.ttf from Marin.zip)
Note: Additional samples are available for this font.
Source: Free download from Mark E. Shoulson's website.
Stats: Version 001.000 has 1,971 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Hebrew, Latin
Sample of MPH 2B Damase at 24pt MPH 2B Damase    [ show all samples ]  (damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip)
Source: Free download locally.
Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
Sample of Rotinonhsonni Sans at 23pt Rotinonhsonni Sans    [ show all samples ]  (rotinonhversion.ttf [regular], rotinonhbversion.ttf [bold], rotinonhiversion.ttf [italic], and rotinonhbiversion.ttf [bold italic] from RotinonhSans.zip)
Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com
Stats: Version 8.007 2006 has 4,960 glyphs and 106 kerning pairs
Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
 

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