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This is not so much a WI that I am trying to answer as it is a query to the experts. I would just like to know what would happen if one fairly prolific North American tribe or culture invented a phonetic script and if that script would possibly be adopted by other cultures. I'm not sure what time would be best for it but I'd put it a few centuries before the Old World unleashes it's maelstrom of death.

I'm well aware that the Mesoamericans had writing and that the Tawantinsuyu had that . . . Hair-knot colour coded necklace. I'm not sure about the invention of the Cree alphabet and where it lies chronologically, either- I mean for a fully independent alphabet invented by a powerful and prolific North American people that can have the chance to spread across.

Answers to this humble query are extremely appreciated, and I hope this prompt stirs some kind of interest for any prolific writers in here . . . *Unsubtle nudge*. Actually, knowing this place, there's probably already an excellent timeline along these lines, so a secondary purpose of this question is scouting for it, I guess.
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