Cherokee

Q: What alphabet or script does Cherokee use?

Cherokee is written using the Cherokee script (Cher).

Q: What direction is Cherokee written?

Cherokee is written Left-to-right, the same direction as most European languages.

ᏣᎳᎩ

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Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) is a language . It is written using the Cherokee script. Its BCP 47 language code is chr.

Writing Systems Used for Cherokee

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Cherokee use?

Cherokee is written using the Cherokee script (ISO 15924 code: Cher). Cherokee is written left-to-right.

What direction is Cherokee written?

Cherokee is written Left-to-right. Text runs from left to right, the same direction as most European languages.

What is the language code for Cherokee?

The BCP 47 language code for Cherokee is "chr". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code: chr
ISO 639-3: chr
Status: living
Scripts: 1
Primary Script: Cherokee

Other Cherokee Languages

None found.

Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.