Savior of a Language

Short film about Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee alphabet or Syllabary. My first film!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Sequoyah
• Cherokee
• Syllabary
• Savior
• of
• Language
• Joshua
• Adams
• Lincoln
• Wrights

[showerfreeshow]

Tsa la gi a yv

[Daywhite]

Thank you for posting this. I consider Sequoyah one of the most brilliant men to have ever lived. More people need to know and learn of this. Maybe through your posting this, someone will see it, and be curious enough to seek further information. My grandmother was Cherokee, and I continue to try to further her legacy and that of the Cherokee nation.

[KamidakeRed]

Sequoyah Is a hero to me and all Tsalagi people, because of him we can protect our language for the future in a world were many of us are trying to relearn what has been lost. i had a question and its falling hard on my heart. i created new letters for Tsalagi just to see if i could.. is that disrespectful to Sequoyah. these letter i made up from my head they wouldn't be found anywhere in the world. i don't mean any disrespect to sequoyah.

[RaineeLuv]

I remember when I was about four or five years old, six at the latest, and my grandmother sent me a postcard with the Cherokee alphabet on it. She told me maybe one day when I was older I could learn how to speak our ancestors' language.

[hobbler365]

It's not really hard considering Japanese and Chinese have thousands of symbols.

[Icefishermans]

86 Characters? That's painful. Cherokee are smart people though.

[thatisabigten4]

my great great great great grandfather is Sequoyah. I have his name tattooed on my arm in cherokee.

[numutabin]

Too true, Cherokee have a higher number of knowledgable survivors (carriers of the old way) than most tribes. I am Ojibway, and I only know so much, while our language wasn't written down, George Copway left a book in the library here that tells the way. Unfortunately, it seems as if publishers don't want to touch the book-the book is from the orginal 1856.