Re: Schwa vowel, which letter?

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:21:24 -0500, Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
wrote:

>But when Sequoya (sp?) created the Cherokee alphabet, he didn't
>make any letters cross over whatsoever, because he couldn't read
>(or maybe even speak) English.  The story goes that one day he just
>realized that the White Man's strenght lay in his ability to record
>information, so he bought a local newspaper and took letters off
>the newspaper, and created his own phonetic alphabet for Cherokee
>(or maybe it was a syllabary, can't remember which) with 85
>characters (come to think of it, it was probably a syllabary).
Interestingly, the original Cherokee syllabary didn't look like Roman
characters at all, but more like cursive handwriting. The printed version
came later.