iPhones Bridging The Generation Gap for Cherokee Nation (fwd link)

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iPhones Bridging The Generation Gap for Cherokee Nation

Posted: Jan 17, 2011 4:21 PM
Darren Brown, News9.com
USA

TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma -- The Cherokee Nation bought their first printing press
back in the 1820s, and they're still using the day's latest technology to
advance their language.

It was almost two hundred years ago that Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith,
transcribed his tribe's first written language using a system of 86 symbols.
Sequoyah was convinced that a written language was the key to a society's
progress and spent more than a decade developing his syllabary.

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