Editing Cherokee language (section)

=== Language drift ===
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! colspan="4" | Drifted Otali Sequoyah<br />syllabary mapping
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| Otali syllable || Sequoyah syllabary index || Sequoyah syllabary chart || Sequoyah syllable
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| a || 00 || Ꭰ || a
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| e || 01 || Ꭱ || e
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| i || 02 || Ꭲ || i
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| o || 03 || Ꭳ || o
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| u || 04 || Ꭴ || u
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| v || 05 || Ꭵ || v
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| qwa || 06 || Ꭶ || ga
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| ka || 07 || Ꭷ || ka
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| ge || 08 || Ꭸ || ge
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| gi || 09 || Ꭹ || gi
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| go || 10 || Ꭺ || go
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| gu || 11 || Ꭻ || gu
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| gv || 12 || Ꭼ || gv
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| ha || 13 || Ꭽ || ha
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| he || 14 || Ꭾ || he
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| hi || 15 || Ꭿ || hi
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| ho || 16 || Ꮀ || ho
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| hu || 17 || Ꮁ || hu
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| hv || 18 || Ꮂ || hv
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| la || 19 || Ꮃ || la
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| le || 20 || Ꮄ || le
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| li || 21 || Ꮅ || li
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| lo || 22 || Ꮆ || lo
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| lu || 23 || Ꮇ || lu
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| lv || 24 || Ꮈ || lv
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| ma || 25 || Ꮉ || ma
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| me || 26 || Ꮊ || me
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| mi || 27 || Ꮋ || mi
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| mo || 28 || Ꮌ || mo
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| mu || 29 || Ꮍ || mu
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| na || 30 || Ꮎ || na
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| hna || 31 || Ꮏ || hna
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| nah || 32 || Ꮐ || nah
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| ne || 33 || Ꮑ || ne
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| ni || 34 || Ꮒ || ni
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| no || 35 || Ꮓ || no
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| nu || 36 || Ꮔ || nu
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| nv || 37 || Ꮕ || nv
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| qua || 38 || Ꮖ || qua
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| que || 39 || Ꮗ || que
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| qui || 40 || Ꮘ || qui
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| quo || 41 || Ꮙ || quo
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| quu || 42 || Ꮚ || quu
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| quv || 43 || Ꮛ || quv
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| sa || 44 || Ꮜ || sa
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| s || 45 || Ꮝ || s
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| se || 46 || Ꮞ || se
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| si || 47 || Ꮟ || si
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| so || 48 || Ꮠ || so
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| su || 49 || Ꮡ || su
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| sv || 50 || Ꮢ || sv
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| da || 51 || Ꮣ || da
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| ta || 52 || Ꮤ || ta
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| de || 53 || Ꮥ || de
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| te || 54 || Ꮦ || te
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| di || 55 || Ꮧ || di
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| ti || 56 || Ꮨ || ti
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| do || 57 || Ꮩ || do
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| du || 58 || Ꮪ || du
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| dv || 59 || Ꮫ || dv
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| dla || 60 || Ꮬ || dla
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| tla || 61 || Ꮭ || tla
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| tle || 62 || Ꮮ || tle
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| tli || 63 || Ꮯ || tli
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| tlo || 64 || Ꮰ || tlo
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| tlu || 65 || Ꮱ || tlu
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| tlv || 66 || Ꮲ || tlv
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| ja || 67 || Ꮳ || tsa
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| je || 68 || Ꮴ || tse
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| ji || 69 || Ꮵ || tsi
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| jo || 70 || Ꮶ || tso
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| ju || 71 || Ꮷ || tsu
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| jv || 72 || Ꮸ || tsv
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| hwa || 73 || Ꮹ || wa
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| we || 74 || Ꮺ || we
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| wi || 75 || Ꮻ || wi
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| wo || 76 || Ꮼ || wo
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| wu || 77 || Ꮽ || wu
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| wv || 78 || Ꮾ || wv
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| ya || 79 || Ꮿ || ya
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| ye || 80 || Ᏸ || ye
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| yi || 81 || Ᏹ || yi
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| yo || 82 || Ᏺ || yo
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| yu || 83 || Ᏻ || yu
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| yv || 84 || Ᏼ || yv
|}

There are two main dialects of Cherokee spoken by modern speakers. The Giduwa (or Kituwah) dialect (Eastern Band) and the Otali dialect (also called the Overhill dialect) spoken in Oklahoma. The Otali dialect has drifted significantly from Sequoyah's syllabary in the past 150 years, and many contracted and borrowed words have been adopted into the language. These noun and verb roots in Cherokee, however, can still be mapped to Sequoyah's syllabary. There are more than 85 syllables in use by modern Cherokee speakers.