Sequoyah, also known as George Guess or Gist, is the man who invented the Cherokee syllabary. He was born sometime in 1770 and died in August of 1843. He worked as a Cherokee silversmith.
Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian. He did it so his people could read and write!
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Colonial children learned to read by using "The Hornbook." The hornbook was used for instruction. Usually it contained the alphabet, a syllabary, numerals, and the Lord's Prayer. Hornbooks contained printed sheets of text, that was mounted on wood and covered with translucent animal horn, which was used to teach reading and numbers. The books were in the shape of a paddle. These tools for learning remained popular into the 1700's, when the battledore, a lesson book made up of folded paper or cardboard, became more prevalent. Like hornbooks, battledores usually contained the alphabet, numerals, proverbs or prayers.
During the Renaissance in Europe, the Aztec Empire in Mexico was building a city that was far grander than any city in Europe. On the other hand, the Maya culture was collapsing. When the Spanish arrived, Maya cities had vanished. People could still read the Mayan syllables. Maya writing has been cracked. A new Mayan syllabary has been created. A Catholic priest had made a copy of a Mayan text and the Spanish equivalent. In South America the Inca Empire was absorbing the surrounding cultures. It created a form of writing using beads. No one has ever figured out how it worked. The Incas invented the suspension bridge.
Kpelle syllabary was created in 1935.
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Richard Treadwell Hallock has written: 'The Chicago syllabary and the Louvre syllabary AO 7661 ..' -- subject(s): Cuneiform writing
The syllabary used to write foreign words in Japanese is called Katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名).
Syllabary is what the Cherokee call their alphabet.
Syllabary is what the Cherokee call their alphabet.
Sequoyah, also known as George Guess or Gist, is the man who invented the Cherokee syllabary. He was born sometime in 1770 and died in August of 1843. He worked as a Cherokee silversmith.
He invented the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system still used today. Now all Apple computers come with Cherokee installed and there's a Cherokee-language Google that uses Sequoyah's syllabary.
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Syllabary
Sequoyah is credited with creating the syllabary for the Cherokee people. The syllabary consisted of 85 (some say 86) symbols representing unique sound combinations in the Cherokee language.
We don't need an alphabet; we already have a syllabary.