Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing (often "syllabics" for short) is, despite its name, a family of alphabets (specifically, abugidas) used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Athabaskan, and Inuit language families. Canadian syllabics are presently used to write all of the Cree dialects from Naskapi (spoken in Quebec) to the Rocky Mountains, including Eastern Cree, James Bay Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree. It is used to write other Algonquian languages, such as the major Ojibwe dialects in ...

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• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - History
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Basic principles
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Vocabulary of Canadian Syllabics
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Syllables
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Finals
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Diacritics
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Points
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Series
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Variations
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Algonquian
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Inuktitut
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Blackfoot
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Athabaskan
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Current usage
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Origins

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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 6th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic 10th c. ...

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Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - History, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Basic principles, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Vocabulary of Canadian Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Syllables, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Finals, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Diacritics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Points, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Series, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Variations, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Algonquian, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Inuktitut, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Blackfoot, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Athabaskan, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Current usage, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Origins

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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 4th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic 10th c. ...

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Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - History, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Basic principles, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Vocabulary of Canadian Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Syllables, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Finals, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Diacritics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Points, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Series, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Variations, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Algonquian, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Inuktitut, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Blackfoot, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Athabaskan, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Current usage, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Origins

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Aboriginal peoples in Canada are indigenous peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 as Indians (First Nations), Métis, and Inuit. The term "First Peoples" has also been used synonymously. As of the 2001 Canadian Census there are over 900,000 Aboriginal people in Canada. This includes approximately 600,000 people of First Nations descent, 290,000 Métis, and 45,000 Inuit. National representative bodies of Aboriginal peoples in Canada include the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, t ...

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• Aboriginal peoples in Canada - Aboriginal languages
• Aboriginal peoples in Canada - Capitalization

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Today, there are more than 50 different languages spoken by Aboriginal peoples, most of which are spoken only in Canada and are in decline. A number of Native languages are still spoken, among those with the most speakers include Ojibwe and Cree, together totalling up to 150,000 speakers; Inuktitut, with about 29,000 speakers in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrado ...

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Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Aboriginal peoples in Canada - Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal peoples in Canada - Capitalization

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Ojibwe, like many American languages, is polysynthetic, meaning it exhibits a great deal of synthesis and a very high morpheme-to-word ratio (e.g., the single word for "they are Chinese" is aniibiishaabookewininiiwiwag, which contains seven morphemes: elm-PEJORATIVE-liquid-make-man-be-PLURAL, or approximately "they are leaf-soup [i.e., tea] makers"). It is agglutinating, and thus builds up words by stringing morpheme after morpheme together, rather than having several affixes which carr ...

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Ojibwe language, Ojibwe language - Classification, Ojibwe language - Geographic distribution, Ojibwe language - Dialects, Ojibwe language - Phonology, Ojibwe language - Vowels, Ojibwe language - Consonants, Ojibwe language - Phonological Processes, Ojibwe language - Prosody, Ojibwe language - Phonotactics, Ojibwe language - Grammar, Ojibwe language - Pronouns, Ojibwe language - Verbs, Ojibwe language - Nouns, Ojibwe language - Adjectives, Ojibwe language - Syntax, Ojibwe language - Vocabulary, Ojibwe language - Writing system, Ojibwe language - Double Vowel System, Ojibwe language - Syllabary, Ojibwe language - History, Ojibwe language - Examples, Ojibwe language - Text, Ojibwe language - Translation, Ojibwe language - Gloss

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The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages. However, there are no clear criteria for breaking the Inuit language into specific member tongues, since it forms a continuum of close dialects. Each band of Inuit understands its neighbours, and most likely their neighbours' neighbo ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logograms, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. The word "alphabet" itself comes from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet. There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most o ...

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• Alphabet - Types
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• Alphabet - The Alphabet effect

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Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 50,000 speakers across Canada, from Alberta to Labrador. The Cree dialect continuum can be divided by several criteria. Dialects spoken from north-eastern Ontario to Labrador make a distinction between š (sh as in she) and s, while those to the west do not. In several dialects, including northern Plains Cree and Woods Cree, the long vowels ê and î have merged into a single vowel. However, the ...

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• Cree language - Literature

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Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. Such characters may be rendered as boxes, question marks, or other replacement symbols, depending on your browser, operating system, and installed fonts. Even if you have ensured that your browser is interpreting the article as UTF-8 encoded and you have installed a font that supports a wide range of Unicode, such as Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Lu ...

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An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel. Examples include the various scripts of the Brahmic family, Ethiopic Ge’ez, and Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. A typical abugida is Devanagari. There is no basic sign representing the consonant k; rather the unmodified letter क represents the syllable ka; th ...

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• Abugida - Partial list of abugidas
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Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages. Many proposals to group these into higher-level families have been made by some linguists, but several of these have not been generally accepted. Indigenous languages of ...

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• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Background
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• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Greenland Canada & USA
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Language stock proposals
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Pidgins mixed languages & trade languages
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Unattested languages
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Linguistic areas
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Bibilography

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A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language. Writing system - General properties. Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated language in order to successfully read and comprehend the text. Contrast this with other possible symbolic systems such as information signs, painting, maps, and mathematics, which do ...

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• Writing system - Directionality

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Because the Inuit language is spread over such a large area, divided between different nations and political units and originally reached by Europeans of different origins at different times, there is no uniform way of writing the Inuit language. Most Inuktitut in Nunavut and Nunavik is written using a scheme called Inuktitut syllabics, based on Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. The western part of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories use a Roman alphabet scheme usually identified as Inuinnaqtun. In Alaska, another Roman scheme is used. Nunats ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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Because the Inuit language is spread over such a large area, divided between different nations and political units and originally reached by Europeans of different origins at different times, there is no uniform way of writing the Inuit language. Most Inuktitut in Nunavut and Nunavik is written using an scheme called Inuktitut syllabics, based on Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. The western part of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories use a Roman alphabet scheme usually identified as Inuinnaqtun. In Alaska, another Roman scheme is used. Nunat ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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Inuit language - Toponymy and Names. Exotic as traditional Inuit names sound, both the names of places and people tend to be highly prosaic when translated. Iqaluit, for example, is simply the plural of the noun iqaluk - "fish". Iglulik simply means place with houses, a word that could be interpreted as simply town; Inuvik is place of people; Baffin Island - Qikiqtaaluk in Inuit languag ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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See Inuit language morphology and syntax for a more detailed description specific to Nunavut Inuktitut. The Inuit language, like other Eskimo-Aleut languages, has a very rich morphological system, in which a succession of different morphemes are added to root words to indicate things that, in languages like English, would require serveral words to express. (See also: Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language) All Inuit language words begin with a root morpheme to which other morphemes are suffixed. The language h ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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See main article Inuit language phonology and phonetics. Eastern Canadian Inuit language variants have fifteen consonants and three vowels (which can be long or short). Consonants are arranged with five places of articulation: bilabial, alveolar, palatal, velar and uvular; and three manners of articulation: voiceless stops, voiced continuants and nasals, as well as two additional sounds — voiceless fricatives. The Alaskan dialects have an additional manner of articulation, the retroflex, which was present ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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The language of the Inuit is an Eskimo-Aleut language. It is fairly closely related to the Yupik languages, and more remotely to the Aleut languages. These cousin languages are all spoken in Western Alaska and Eastern Chukotka, Russia. It is not discernibly related to other North American or northwest Asian indigenous languages, although some have proposed that it is related to Indo-European languages as part of the hypothetical Nostratic superphylum, and there are those who consider it a Paleo-Siberian language, a ...

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Inuit language, Inuit language - What is the Inuit language called?, Inuit language - Classification and history, Inuit language - Geographic distribution and variants, Inuit language - Alaska, Inuit language - Canada, Inuit language - Greenland, Inuit language - Phonology and Phonetics, Inuit language - Morphology and syntax, Inuit language - Vocabulary, Inuit language - Toponymy and Names, Inuit language - Words for snow, Inuit language - Writing, Inuit language - The Canadian syllabary

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Ojibwe is spoken by around 10,000 people in the United States and by as many as 45,000 in Canada, making it one of the largest Algic languages by speakers. The various dialects are spoken in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the US, and north into Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec in Canada. Ojibwe language - Dialects. Ojibwe has quite a few divergent dialects. The primary ones are Nipissing, Plains Ojibwe (Saulteaux), Eastern Ojibwe, Northern Ojibwe, and Odaawaa (or Ottawa), Severn Ojibwe (Oji-Cree), and ...

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Ojibwe language, Ojibwe language - Classification, Ojibwe language - Geographic distribution, Ojibwe language - Dialects, Ojibwe language - Phonology, Ojibwe language - Vowels, Ojibwe language - Consonants, Ojibwe language - Phonological Processes, Ojibwe language - Prosody, Ojibwe language - Phonotactics, Ojibwe language - Grammar, Ojibwe language - Pronouns, Ojibwe language - Verbs, Ojibwe language - Nouns, Ojibwe language - Adjectives, Ojibwe language - Syntax, Ojibwe language - Vocabulary, Ojibwe language - Writing system, Ojibwe language - Double Vowel System, Ojibwe language - Syllabary, Ojibwe language - History, Ojibwe language - Examples, Ojibwe language - Text, Ojibwe language - Translation, Ojibwe language - Gloss

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