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The Mayan system is not hieroglyphs. The Mayans created a syllabary where each separate syllable has a symbol. The Cherokee also use a syllabary. The Japanese also use a syllabary. When a language uses a total of 90 or fewer sounds, a syllabary takes less time to learn than an alphabet. A 5 year old Cherokee child would learn to read and write in 4 months.

It is much easier for children to learn to read and write German and Spanish than it is to learn English and French. In German or Spanish, each letter has one sound. (Spanish has the exception that ll and y are pronounced the same. Also g has two sounds, however, both are only indicated by a g.)

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