Sequoyah

Sequoyah

Sequoyah was a Cherokee who lived in Tennessee in the early 1800's. In 1809 he began to create a system of writing for the Cherokee language. It was a syllabary, or written characters which are used to represent a syllable. He invented 86 characters that represented sounds, which made up words.

This system was quickly adopted by the Cherokee people and became a valuable way to communicate between settlements that were separated by long distances

Foreman, Grant

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

[1959, c1938]