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Cherokee language, writing system and pronunciation

We're working with Cherokee Nation's ᏗᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏗ Cherokee syllabary workbook. We are reformatting it into a set of smaller booklets. Here is the a-column of syllables, following the alphabetic order of the syllabary. ᏗᏕᏲᎲᏍᎩ ᎤᏓᏠᎯᏓ begins by discussing the back cover and the set of syllables created by ᏍᏍᏉᏯ. He notes that we have dropped the Ꮐ syllable. It used to be used in short grammatical function words. Then he flips the book and reads through it, noting that it is a writing practice book and