Cherokee Small Letter Tle

It writes one complete spoken syllable in Cherokee text.

The Cherokee syllabary represents speech one syllable at a time. Sequoyah developed the writing system between 1815–1821 so Cherokee could be written. Inscriptions at Red Bird River Shelter, a rock shelter, are interpreted as experiments toward the syllabary from the early nineteenth century, not as evidence of an older inherited Cherokee script.

Cherokee printing type was finalized in 1827. The script appeared in documents and religious texts; English-language schooling later reduced everyday use. Accounts from 2002 describe renewed use in Eastern Cherokee schools, publications, signs, and expressions of identity; they also note tourist goods displaying Cherokee characters as cultural emblems rather than words.

Is ꮮ the same as Ꮮ?

Yes: Ꮮ is its uppercase counterpart for the same Cherokee syllable.

Printed Cherokee originally used one cap-height style; smaller forms were later introduced so text could distinguish case without disrupting existing layouts. Some software converts Cherokee text to uppercase when ignoring case, so it can turn ꮮ into Ꮮ.

How do I type ꮮ?

Select a Cherokee keyboard layout in your device settings.

Layouts vary: some enter Latin-letter transliterations with dead keys, which wait for the next keystroke; some map sound mnemonics to Latin keys; others arrange Cherokee syllables for easier typing.

Font support for Cherokee lowercase forms was uneven in 2024. If this character appears as a square, use a font that includes Cherokee small letters.