Even more fascinating is that the Cherokee syllabary may have been the foundation for the West African tribe Vai's syllabary, one of few scripts invented in Afr

Even more fascinating is that the Cherokee syllabary may have been the foundation for the West African tribe Vai's syllabary, one of few scripts invented in Africa. When freedmen went to Liberia, or rather what would become Liberia, some Cherokees opted to join. One of them became a chief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_syllabary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_syllabary Edit: See also https://whyafricanlanguages.org/2019/01/28/sequoyahs-ghost-at-grand-cape-mount-liberia/ https://whyafricanlanguages.org/2019/01/28/sequoyahs-ghost-a...