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A syllabary made by a man who could not read.
Also known as: Sequoyah syllabary
The script created in the 1820s by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language.
Writes Cherokee with one character to a syllable.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Devised by Sequoyah, who could not read English, so the Latin letterforms he borrowed carry values unrelated to their English ones — the shapes were taken as available marks rather than as letters, which is direct evidence that the idea of writing was transmitted without its content.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Eighty-five characters, several borrowed in shape from the Latin alphabet with entirely unrelated values, each standing for a syllable.