@Wortel And because very few people can read the Cherokee syllabary, if you used it in a game, you could make it mean anything you want.
Besides being 85 characters, which are hard to memorize for a language one doesn't encounter very often, the syllabary is confusing because it uses letters of the Roman alphabet, but with different values. For instance, the word for "Cherokee" looks like "CWY", but is pronounced "tsa-la-gi". Here it is in a context, on the sign of the Cherokee Central Schools in the town of Cherokee, North Carolina:
. . . which reads "Tsalagi Tsunadelogwasdi Dudatsisgv'i" (Cherokee School Central). Since every word in Cherokee is also a full sentence, that second word, "school", means something like "They are learning in that place".
Now I remember why I never got very far in trying to get a handle on this language.
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@Wortel And because very few people can read the Cherokee syllabary, if you used it in a game, you could make it mean anything you want.
Besides being 85 characters, which are hard to memorize for a language one doesn't encounter very often, the syllabary is confusing because it uses letters of the Roman alphabet, but with different values. For instance, the word for "Cherokee" looks like "CWY", but is pronounced "tsa-la-gi". Here it is in a context, on the sign of the Cherokee Central Schools in the town of Cherokee, North Carolina:
. . . which reads "Tsalagi Tsunadelogwasdi Dudatsisgv'i" (Cherokee School Central). Since every word in Cherokee is also a full sentence, that second word, "school", means something like "They are learning in that place".
Now I remember why I never got very far in trying to get a handle on this language.