Did the Iroquois even have a written language? Turtle Fan 16:21, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
Good point. I have no idea but it could be they adapted the Roman alphabet to their oral language. Given the comments about Quebec in the same scene, it could be a twee reference to their language laws which require all signs to be in French and with lettering twice as large as that for other languages (read English) that may also appear. ML4E 17:38, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
Yes, very likely. When an illiterate society comes into contact with a literate one and maintains its linguistic integrity, it usually ends up borrowing the writing system. That's why so many of China's neighbors used its system, though many eventually abandoned it or supplemented it with characters of their own. The Vietnamese, the Malays, and most Indonesians use Roman. The Mongolians use mostly Cyrillic. And both Roman and Cyrillic were adapted from the Greek by societies which had no writing system at all before contact with Greece.
By the way, I did a little Googling and confirmed there was no Iroquois alphabet. These days it's written in Roman, when it's written at all. Turtle Fan 19:41, May 8, 2010 (UTC)