fundamentally different letter shapes or sound values. Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, uses a syllabary developed in the 1880s that is quite different
script – Bamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the gaps) Eskayan – Bohol, Philippines (a syllabary apparently based on an alphabet;
Before the development of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s, Cherokee was an oral language only. The Cherokee syllabary is a set of written symbols invented
according to tradition. John William Tims - Missionary, developed Blackfootsyllabary c. 1890. Marcus Tullius Tiro - Roman secretary, ascribed invention