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He invented the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system still used today. Now all Apple computers come with Cherokee installed and there's a Cherokee-language Google that uses Sequoyah's syllabary.

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he made syllabary and developed symbols to represent the 80 sounds of the tribe's language

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