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I've had the thought of creating a map of a divided North America, where the Deseret and Cherokee scripts are not only state languages but a lot more widespread and used in multiple countries. I'm thinking the Deseret script would be used primarily in the OTL Southwest interior and maybe California, while the Cherokee script would be extant in the southern Great Plains and Lower Mississippi (a Cherokee nation is created in Arkansas perhaps?). How could this come about, and are there any other ideas on where non-Latin scripts could make their way into common use in North America? Maybe a Russian-speaking Alaska as well?
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