Sequoyah
1770 CE–1843 CE · Cherokee country
Sequoyah was a Cherokee silversmith and craftsman who created a writing system for the Cherokee language. Working alone over roughly a decade, he devised a syllabary of some eighty-six characters, each standing for a syllable, which he completed around 1821. The Cherokee Nation adopted it in 1825, and literacy spread so rapidly that the Nation soon published its own newspaper and books in Cherokee. His achievement is one of the few documented cases of an individual devising a writing system from scratch. He died in 1843.
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