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Cherokee Numerals

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1. pndy ◴[] No.26522251[source]
Cherokee syllabary [1] is interesting itself - it incorporates variety of characters that look like Latin and other Old World scripts letters but obviously have a different meaning.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

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2. protomyth ◴[] No.26524015[source]
The other native languages got varying treatments. Dakota basically got the English alphabet with some accented characters added. It mattered quite a lot if a Native was doing the work or some missionaries. Which sometimes might be indicated if things are "Spirit" or "Devil" translated.

I do wish we had decided the Yuki got it right and we would all be using octal instead of decimal.