Definitions for Sequoya

Sequoya Se·quoy·a

Spelling: [si-kwoi-uh]
IPA: /sɪˈkwɔɪ ə/

Sequoya is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in Sequoya (aeoqsuy).

Definitions for Sequoya

noun

  1. 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.

Examples for Sequoya

Their language was reduced to writing by means of an alphabet which one of their number named Sequoya had devised.

The Washington treaty was signed by several delegates, including Sequoya, four of them signing in Cherokee characters.

The next year Sequoya visited the West, to introduce the new science among those who had emigrated to the Arkansas.

On the other hand, it is certain that Sequoya was born before the date that Phillips allows.

Sequoya, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, lived here in his boyhood, about the time of the Revolution.

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