Inner Essences / ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢᎨ ᎨᏒᎣᏗ

It is the inner essences of things
that are important.
Our inner essence
is light and life.

ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢᎨ ᎨᏒᎣᏗ ᎢᏳᏍᏗᏗ ᎥᎿᎢ
Ꮎ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏛ.
ᎠᏆᏤᎵ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢᎨ ᎨᏒᎣ
ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᎸᏌᏓ ᎠᎴ ᎥᎴᏂᏙᎲ.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler.

ᎤᏰᎸᎭ ᎠᎦᏙᎲᏍᏗ 73 / Naked Wisdom 73

ᎠᎦᏔᎿᎢ ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎤᏚᎳᏓᏎ ᎤᏩᏌ ᎦᏲᎵ ᎧᏁᎢᏍᏗᏗᏁ;
ᏄᏓᏅᏛᎾ ᎤᏚᎳᏓᏎ ᎤᎪᏗᏗᏁ.

A wise man needs only few words;
a fool needs many.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler ꮨᏺꭽꮅ.

Out of the Shadows / ᏙᏰᎩ ᎤᏓᏴᎳᏛᏗ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ

Out of the shadows
and into the light,
the past comes to visit us,
day or night.

ᏙᏰᎩ ᎤᏓᏴᎳᏛᏗ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ
ᎠᎴ ᎤᎸᏌᏓ ᎾᎿᎢ,
ᏧᏩᎫᏔᏅᏒ ᏅᎳᏎ ᎠᏓᏩᏛᏘ ᎢᏧᎸ,
ᎢᎦ ᎠᎴ ᏒᏃᏱ.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler ꮨᏺꭽꮅ.

How to type in Cherokee Script

I have at least four ways of typing in Cherokee script. Perhaps that's why I do it so much. Here they are:

"SZBE" (phonetic, literally "sounds") keyboard (Chrome browser extension):

ꭰ ꭱ ꭲ ꭳ ꭴ ꭵ
ꭶ ꭷ ꭸ ꭹ ꭺ ꭻ ꭼ
ꭽ ꭾ ꭿ ꮀ ꮁ ꮂ
ꮃ ꮄ ꮅ ꮆ ꮇ ꮈ
ꮉ ꮊ ꮋ ꮌ ꮍ
ꮎ ꮏ ꮎh ꮑ ꮒ ꮓ ꮔ ꮕ
ꮖ ꮗ ꮘ ꮙ ꮚ ꮛ
ꮝ ꮜ ꮞ ꮟ ꮠ ꮡ ꮢ
ꮣ ꮤ ꮥ ꮦ ꮧ ꮨ ꮩ ꮪ ꮫ
ꮬ ꮭ ꮮ ꮯ ꮰ ꮱ ꮲ
ꮳ ꮴ ꮵ ꮶ ꮷ ꮸ
ꮹ ꮺ ꮻ ꮼ ꮽ ꮾ
ꮚ ᏸ ᏹ ꮒ ᏻ ᏼ

Analysis: "nah" is not available, but I never use it. "yo" gives "ni." "ya" gives "quu." They must be supplied from elsewhere.


"Tsalagi" keyboard:

Chrome layout:     Windows layout:

ꮹ12ᏽꮩꮶꮬꮛꮦꮢꮔꮥꮆ     `ᏣᎳᎩᎣᏏᏲᏩᏙᏙᏦᏜᏋᏖᏒᏄᎿᏳ

ꭺꮃꭱꮫꮤꮿꭴꭲꭳꮑꮸᏻ     ᎪᎳᎡᏛᏔᏯᎤᎢᎣᏁᏕᎶ

ꭰꮝꮧꭹꭶꭿꮪꮈꮅ`'ꮒ     ᎠᏍᏗᎩᎦᎯᏚᎸᎵᏨ'Ꮹ

<ꭼᏼꮣꭵꮈꮎꮕ,.ꮏ     ᎬᏴᏓᎥᎨᎾᏅ,.Ꮒ


shifted

ꮾꮁꮗꮷꮀꮉꮭꮱꮊ()ꮡꮴ     ᏊᎱᏇᏧᎰᎹᏝᏡᎺ()ᎼᎽ

ꮖꮻꮳꮟꮨᏺꭽᏹꮼꮺꮰꮍ     ᏆᏫᏣᏏᏘᏲᎭᏱᏬᏪᏑᏤ

ꮜꮞꮠꮘꮵꮂꭻꭷꭾꮚ"ꮙ     ᏌᏎᏐᏈᏥᎲᎫᎧᎮᏠ"Ꮾ

>ꮓꮽꮯꮮᏸꮋꮇꮲꮄꮌ     ᏃᏭᏟᏞᏰᎻᎷᏢᎴᏉ

"Tsalagi," the Cherokee National Keyboard, uses all four rows of your keyboard, including those that were numerals or other symbols before. The Chrome layout has an advantage in that you can shift into ordinary Roman alphabet by using the Caps Lock key.

These two layouts are not precisely the same. Chrome has the advantage for supplying missing SZBE symbols. Windows gives a larger, more readable type. Windows can supply "yo" Ᏺ and "ya" Ꮿ, using the same keystrokes. Blending SZBE with Windows: ꮨᏲꭽꮅ (font size does not match).

Your layout results could be slightly different from mine, because my computer, purchased in Uruguay, has a Spanish keyboard.

ꮨᏺꭽꮅ (SZBE blended with Chrome layout of Tsalagi kbd)

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SZBE keyboard: "ya" and "yo" are missing

ꮨᏺꭽꮅ (supplied "yo" from Tsalagi kbd w/ "shift-y").

ꭰꮿ (supplied "ya" from Tsalagi kbd w/ "y").

And finally, my favorite method is here:

Easy transliteration from translitteration.com


BUT, it is not always available. If it isn't, you will need to use one of the other methods.

Neither the Chrome SZBE extension nor the program from translitteration.com will accept variants from the Western dialect for the sounds, so you need to use Sequoyah's original values for the symbols of his syllabary (i.e., "tsalagi," not "jalagi").

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler ꮨᏺꭽꮅ.

ᎪᎳᏅ-ᎠᏙᎯ / The Raven Woods

ᎪᎳᏅ-ᎠᏙᎯ ᎤᎭᏎ ᎤᎪᏗᏗ ᏡᎬᏗᏁ. ᎾᏍᎩ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎠᏆ ᎢᏤ ᎦᎵᏦᏕ ᎣᏂᏗᏢ. ᎩᎵ Ꮭ ᏰᎵᏆᏎ ᎠᏴᏍᏗ ᎠᏙᎯᏁ ᎤᏩᏒ, ᎢᎬᏂᏏᏍᎩ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩ ᎠᏐᏴ. ᎠᏯ ᎨᏳᏓᏎ ᎠᏆ ᎢᏤ ᎦᎵᏦᏕᏁ, ᎠᎴ ᎪᎳᏅ-ᎠᏙᎯᏁ.

The raven woods have many trees. They are behind my new house. The dog cannot enter them alone, because there is a metal fence. I love my new house, and the raven woods.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler ꮨᏺꭽꮅ.

Body Parts / ᎢᎦᏛᏗ ᎠᏰᎸ ᎥᎿᎢ

Body parts
only hint
at the spirit.

ᎢᎦᏛᏗ ᎠᏰᎸ ᎥᎿᎢ
ᎤᏩᏌ ᎧᏁᎢᏍᏙᏓᏎ
ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᎾᎿᎢ.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler ᏘᏲᎭᎵ.

In the End / ᎤᎵᏍᏛ ᎭᏫᎾ

In the end,
what we want
is beauty,
and we trust it
to be as close
to truth
as we will
ever get.

ᎤᎵᏍᏛ ᎭᏫᎾ,
Ꮎ ᎢᏧᎳ ᎠᏚᎳᏓᏎ
ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᏬᏚ,
ᎠᎴ ᎢᏧᎳ ᎰᏩ-ᎠᏰᎸᏓᏎ ᎾᏍᎩᏁ
ᎨᏒᎢ ᏥᎸ ᎾᎥᏂᎨ
ᏚᏳᎪᏛ ᏗᏜ
Ꮎ ᎢᏧᎳ ᎢᏳᏊ
ᎨᏒᎣᏎ.

Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler.