Before the development of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s, Cherokee was an oral language only. The Cherokee syllabary is a set of written symbols invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy in that he could not previously read any script.

Jan 13, 2022 · The Cherokee language is considered a Class IV language in its degree of difficulty in terms of spoken form. The Cherokee syllabary is the written form of the language. It is not an alphabet, but instead contains 85 distinct characters that represent the full spectrum of sounds used to speak Cherokee – one character for each discrete syllable

Tsalagi (Cherokee) Syllabarium: Detailed linguistic information on the Cherokee writing system. Cherokee Indian Syllabary: Wikipedia article with historical context about the Cherokee Indians and their written language. Sequoyah And His Syllabary: History of the Cherokee alphabet and its inventor, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah.