On: Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

[birdsongs]

> Would you care to enumerate what specifically you found interesting?

That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... and just made it. And it was effective and good, and culturally spread in just years, allowing them to reach a higher literacy rate than english speakers in the country at the time.

That's interesting to me.

[bcjdjsndon → birdsongs]

> That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language...

This is why the Americans were so intractably behind the rest of the world by the time Columbus found em. I think it's sad

[birdsongs → bcjdjsndon]

Except many native cultures in the Americas had written languages, going back thousands of years. I think the large scale genocide was a bit more sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...

[bcjdjsndon → birdsongs]

There's only so much you can pass on without writing. It's a massive benefit to a society to not have to keep everything in people's heads.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_...