when did sequoyah make the cherokee alphabet
Cherokee (á£á³á© / Tsalagi) Cherokee syllabary. The Cherokee syllabary was invented by George Guess/Gist, a.k.a. Chief Sequoyah, of the Cherokee, and was developed between 1809 and 1824. At first Sequoyah experimented with a writing system based on logograms, but found this cumbersome and unsuitable for Cherokee.