4.About two dozen of his Cherokee syllabic signs were taken directly from those letters, though of course with completely changed meanings, since Sequoyah did not know the English meanings.
5.(3) Syllabic consonant: The English liquid [l] and the nasals [m, n] become syllable nucleu when they follow an alveolar consonant or bilabial stop in the last syllable of a word.
6.We have four consonants that take over the schwa: RL, M, N, and that means they're called syllabic consonants, that means you don't try to make a vowel, they overtake the schwa.
7.Like letters of the early Semitic alphabet, Maya syllabic signs were derived from pictures of the object whose pronunciation began with that syllable (for example, the Maya syllabic sign " ne" resembles a tail, for which the Maya word is neh).