Journal Article

[Garry Forger]

Journal of Electronic Publishing

"Typesetting Native American Languages"
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/syropoulos.html
All 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. 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. Syllabaries, common in ancient scripts, were used by the
Maya and the Epi-Olmec people of Mesoamerica. ...

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