JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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Both systems use characters to represent words.
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Both systems use an equivalent number of characters.
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The characters of the syllabary represent the same sounds as those in the alphabet.
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The characters of the syllabary represent word parts while the characters of the alphabet represent sounds.
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Detailed explanation-1: -First, the Cherokee alphabet is technically not an alphabet at all, but a syllabary. That means each Cherokee symbol represents a syllable, not just a consonant or a vowel. So using the English alphabet, the Cherokee word ama ("water") is written with three letters: a, m, and a.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before long, he realized this task would be overwhelming. Instead, he began listening more carefully to Cherokee speech, studying the sound patterns that formed words. He heard vowels and consonants and discerned many variations, finally isolating about 85 distinct syllables.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are far too many syllables in English (tens of thousands) for an English syllabary to be usable, but the 85 characters in the Cherokee syllabary are completely functional for writing the Cherokee language.
Detailed explanation-4: -An alphabet uses individual symbols for consonants and vowels. Sequoyah’s writing system was directly connected to spoken Cherokee. Its 86 symbols represented consonant and vowel combinations – syllables. This is why written Cherokee, or Tsalagi Gawonihisdi, is correctly called a syllabary, not an alphabet.