Sequoyah's Cherokee Syllabary
by Mitch Spence
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Sequoyah's Cherokee Syllabary
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Mitch Spence
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Photograph
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Sequoyah (in English, George Guess or Gist), a Cherokee silversmith, in 1821 completed his creation of a Cherokee syllabary, sometimes called the Cherokee alphabet. The syllabary made reading and writing in Cherokee possible. It is still used today, and Cherokee courses are offered at some schools as well, in an effort to revive the use and understanding of the language. The syllabary is presented artistically here on a ceramic piece in a circular pattern of earth tones with a textured background framing it. Although the words are often used interchangeably conversationally, technically, an alphabet is a series of letters used in the writing of a language, while a syllabary is a phonetic writing system in which syllables are depicted rather than letters.
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