Biography of the World's Greatest Linguists SequoyahAbout the biography of Cherokee Indian Sequoyah one of the greatest linguists in history and the world.THE WORLD'S GREATEST LINGUISTS
SEQUOYAH (1770?-1843)
This American Cherokee Indian is the only person in history known to have invented an alphabet for a living language. It took Sequoyah 12 years to invent his 86-character alphabet, or syllabary, to represent the sound of spoken Cherokee. The alphabet was so logical and simple that it could be learned in a few days, and it made many thousands of the illiterate Cherokee population literate within a matter of months! | ||
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