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	Cree syllabary, pronunciation and language
		Evans' syllabary for Ojibwe consisted of just nine symbols, each of which could be written in four different orientations to indicate different vowels.
		According to Cree tradition, Evans adapted an existing script which was invented at an earlier date, possibly by a member of the Blackfoot nation.
		Abenaki, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware, Míkmaq, Montagnais, Naskapi, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Shawnee
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cree.htm (569 words)

	Cree syllabics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cree syllabics are the variations on Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics that are used to write Cree language dialects.
		Evans's syllabary was so easy to learn that it caught on quickly, leading to an incredibly high literacy rate among the Cree and adaptations of the script to be used to write native languages all over Canada, including Athabaskan languages, Inuktitut, and others.
		Eastern Cree syllabics are used by Cree dialects east of the Manitoba - Ontario border, and Western Cree syllabics are used by Cree speakers west of that line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cree_syllabary (318 words)

	Western Cree syllabics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree.
		It is used for all Cree dialects west of approximately the Manitoba - Ontario border in Canada.
		Cree syllabics uses different glyphs to indicate consonants, and changes the orientation of these glyphs to indicate the vowel that follows it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Cree_syllabics (729 words)

	Cree syllabary. Who is Cree syllabary? What is Cree syllabary? Where is Cree syllabary? Definition of Cree syllabary. ...
		The Cree syllabary was developed as a writing system for the Cree language in the mid- 1800s by James Evans.
		He then created a syllabary based on his earlier syllabary developed for the Ojibwe language, which was, in part, based on Pitman's shorthand.
		The new syllabary was quite simple; it consists of just 12 basic shapes representing syllables, which can be rotated to distinguish between the different vowels and adorned with a diacritic dot to distinguish vowel lengths.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Cree_syllabary (180 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Cree language
		Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 50,000 speakers across Canada, from Alberta to Labrador.
		Cree dialects, except for those spoken in eastern Quebec and Labrador, are traditionally written using Cree syllabics, a variant of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, but can be written with the Roman alphabet as well.
		Cree is one of the seven official languages of the Northwest Territories, but is only spoken by a small number of people there in the area around the town of Fort Smith.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Cree_language (712 words)

	Cree Language and the Cree Indian Tribe (Iyiniwok, Eenou, Eeyou, Iynu, Kenistenoag)
		The most divergent is Eastern Cree, which some consider a closer relative to the Innu languages Montagnais and Naskapi than to the other Cree dialects--then again, others consider Montagnais, Naskapi, and/or Attikamekw to be dialects of Cree themselves.
		All five Cree dialects (though not Atikamekw or the Innu languages) are written in a unique syllabary which uses shapes to represent consonants and rotates them in the Four Directions to represent vowels.
		Though many Cree regard the Metis as Cree brethren--and, indeed, though many registered Cree Indians are also mixed-blood--the Metis have a unique culture and their own creole tongue (known as Michif).
	www.native-languages.org /cree.htm (895 words)

	Cree language: Definition and links.
		Cree is an Algonquian language spoken in the northern Great Plains of Canada.
		It uses the Cree syllabary[?] for writing; the same syllabary is also used in writing the various Inuit dialects of northern Canada, although it appears that the Latin-based orthographies for these languages are supplanting the various forms of the syllabary.
		The word "Cree" is short for Keristenoag, which is their name for themselves (-ag is the animate[?] plural ending).
	www.encyclopedian.com /cr/Cree-language.html (177 words)

	Cree language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken across Canada, from Alberta to Labrador.
		Both the Cree syllabary and a romanized orthography are used for writing.
		Cree is an official language of the Northwest Territories.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cree_language (332 words)

	Inuktitut syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Inuktitut syllabary is a writing system used by Inuit people in Nunavut and in northern Quebec.
		It was originally adapted from the Cree syllabary by Edmund Peck, an Anglican missionary, in the 1870's.
		This fourth vowel variant of the official syllabary was initially removed so that Inuktitut could be typed and printed using IBM Selectric balls in the 1970s.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /i/in/inuktitut_syllabary.html (188 words)

	cree syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cree syllabary The Cree syllabary was developed as a writing system for the Cree language in the mid-1800s by James Evans...
		Syllabary A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words.
		It was originally adapted from the Cree syllabary by Edmund Peck, an Anglican missionary, in the...
	www.wikisearch.net /cree+syllabary (360 words)

	Syllabary - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words.
		A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
		The Cree syllabary, though usually called that, is also an abugida.
	www.free-definition.com /Syllabary.html (351 words)

	Writing system
		Syllabaries are best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese.
		To write English using a syllabary, every possible syllable in English would have to have a separate symbol, and whereas the number of possible syllables in Japanese is no more than 100 or so, in English there are many thousands.
		The obvious contrast is with syllabaries, which have one distinct symbol per possible syllable, and the signs for each syllable have no systematic graphic similarity.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wr/writing_system.html (1609 words)

	How we think - Sametz Blackstone Associates
		Though Evans died before he could even use his press, in 1846, his Cree syllabary gained support from the British and Foreign Bible Society and was propagated to missions across North America.
		More than 150 year later, the Cree syllabary remains in use among aboriginal communities in Canada and the northern United States.
		Not all English words can be spelled with Cree symbols; for example, the "v" sound (as in "vivid") is not a part of the Cree language.
	www.sametz.com /html/how/articles/invigorate.shtml (602 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cree
		The earliest missionaries in the Cree country were the French Jesuits, who accompanied the commander Verendrye in his explorations of the Saskatchewan and Missouri River region from 1731 to 1742.
		The most distinguished Protestant worker was the Wesleyan Rev. James Evan (1840-1861), inventor of the Cree syllabary, which for half a century has been in successful use in the tribe for literary purposes for all denominations.
		Of the whole number of Cree officially reported as Christian the majority are Catholic and rank high in morality.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04477a.htm (963 words)

	A Native American Son
		Cree is written in a unique syllabary which uses shapes to represent consonants and rotates them in the Four Directions to represent vowels.
		Cree history is very hard to synopsize because the Cree span such a broad territory, from the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
		Since Canadian nationhood, the Cree have faced the same problems of self-determination and land control that every aboriginal group does, but they remain better-equipped to face them than most, and the Cree language is one of the few North American indigenous languages that is assured of surviving into the next century.
	www.kuhmann.com /Cree/index.htm (1373 words)

	Cree - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the early 19th century the Cree syllabary, a set of written characters representing syllables and serving the purpose of an alphabet, was developed with the help of a Methodist missionary, James Evan, enabling high levels of literacy to be achieved among the Cree.
		The Cree began to expand their territory in the 17th century, mainly in response to the French and English demand for furs.
		In the USA most Cree live on the rough and arid Rocky Boys Reservation, Montana, established in 1916, which they share with the Chippewa as the Chippewa-Cree.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cree (749 words)

	Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A symbol in a syllabary typically representsan optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
		Compare abugida, where each grapheme typically represents a syllable but where characters representing related sounds are similargraphically (typically, a common consonantal base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in thesyllable).
		The Cree syllabary, though usuallycalled that, is also an abugida.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/syllabary-14995.html (328 words)

	Cree syllabary Definition / Cree syllabary Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cree syllabics are the variations on Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Canadian aboriginal syllabic writing (often "syllabics" for short) is a family of writing schemes which are used to write a number of aboriginal Canadian languages from the Algonquian, Athabaskan and Inuit language families....
		[click for more] that are used to write Cree language Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 50,000 speakers across Canada, from Alberta to Labrador.
		In a true syllabary there is no systematic graphic similarity between phonetically related characters (though some do have graphic similarity for the vowels).
	www.elresearch.com /Cree_syllabary (441 words)

	Search Results: cree - ABCNEWS.com
		Cree dialects: Western/Plains Cree, Northern/Woodlands Cree, Central/Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and Eastern Cree...
		Cree language and literature booklist and lessons, including transcribed pronunciation guide and syllabary.
		Cree Language and the Cree Indian Tribe (Iyiniwok, Eenou, Eeyou...
	infospace.abcnews.com /_1_ZU5T7O03GG6FHY__info.abcnws/dog/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qcat=web&ran=&qkw=cree (768 words)

	Encyclopedia: Inuktitut syllabary
		In Greenland, Alaska, Labrador, the Mackenzie River delta in the Northwest Territories and in part of Nunavut, it is written with the Latin alphabet.
		In most of Nunavut and in northern Quebec, Inuktitut is written using the Inuktitut syllabary.
		In the 1870's, Edmund Peck, an Anglican missionary adapted the Cree syllabary to Inuktitut.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Inuktitut-syllabary (422 words)

	Inuktitut
		The Inuktitut syllabary is based on the Cree syllabary, which is in turn based on that of Ojibwe.
		The syllabary for Inuktitut was adopted by the Inuit Cultural Institute in Canada in the 1970s.
		Though conventionally called a syllabary, the writing system is, strictly speaking, an abugida, since syllables starting with the same consonant have related glyph s rather than unrelated ones.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Inuktitut.html (703 words)

	Inuktitut Article, Inuktitut Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Inuktitut syllabary is based on the Cree syllabary, which is in turn based on thatof Ojibwe.
		The syllabary for Inuktitut was adopted by the Inuit Cultural Institute in Canada in the 1970s.Inuit in Alaska and Greenland use a Roman script, and Inuit in Siberia use Cyrillic letters.
		Though conventionally called a syllabary, the writing system is, strictlyspeaking, an abugida, since syllables starting with the same consonant have related glyphs rather than unrelated ones.
	www.anoca.org /language/syllabary/inuktitut.html (338 words)

	Search: Cree - Info.co.uk
		Cree do not differ markedly from the general Indian type, but are perhaps...
		Cree lived across the north into the Canadian prairies and in Montana,...
		Cree language (in Plains Cree, nêhiyawêwin) is spoken by about fifty thousand people in six Canadian provinces and territories and in the state of Montana.
	dpxml.infospace.com /infocom.uk/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Cree&CMP=KNC-3LS480536328&infoad=1 (312 words)

	Cree Syllabary (was Re: D! IV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		When once I was shown a chart with the Blackfoot Syllabarium which Cree derives from, along with characters labeled ancient Arabic, ancient Sanskrit and Cypriote script, I remember noting that some seemed mirrored and/or flipped, but fairly clearly related.
		Try this on for a cognitive spin: the syllabary was invented once, long ago, and was o kinesthetically (not visually) based system (transmitting bodily feelings of process and relationship, not objects) with four vowels such that each consonant character twirled to the Four Directions to show them.
	www.voynich.net /Arch/2001/02/msg00125.html (808 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Spoken Cree, Level I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cree, a member of the Algonquin family of languages, is the most widely spoken native language in Canada.
		Although there are different dialects, Cree is recognizably the same language whether on the western plains, in the northern woodlands or on the shores of James Bay.
		The Cree syllabary is introduced in the final chapter of Level I. Levels II and a completely new Level III will build further control of the language with important and more complex grammatical forms.
	amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0888643470/reviews (348 words)

	ISV: Information by Language
		In the recently declared (1999) Canadian region known as the Nunavut Territory, Canadian Syllabics shares the title of “Official Script” with the Latin script, and is used for the writing of the Inuit language.
		As originally devised, the Cree Syllabary was extremely frugal in its use of symbols.
		This same paradigm of identical shapes in varying orientations made the syllabary easy to learn, resulting in a high rate of literacy among the Cree people.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /isv/wt_info.asp?lan=cansyllabic&print=true (279 words)

	Native American Languages 2
		Some of these are syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable (typically a consonant and a vowel).
		Methodist missionary James Evans developed a Cree syllabary, used by Cree and Ojibwa speakers, in the late 1830s.
		An Eskimo syllabary, based on the Cree syllabary, is used by the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and Alaska.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/lang2.htm (893 words)

	Carrier Syllabary
		The Carrier syllabary was fairly widely used for several decades for such purposes as writing diaries and letters and leaving messages on trees.
		Though the syllabary is no longer used or understood by many people, there has been a recent revival of interest in it and it occasionally appears on plaques and memorials.
		This syllabary has also been adapted to write a number of other indigenous languages of North American such as Cree and Inuktitut.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/carrier.htm (179 words)

	Canada encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Canada politics and officials, Canadian History. Travel to Canada
		It was originally adapted from the Cree syllabary by Edmund Peck, an Anglican missionary, in the 1870s.
		This fourth vowel variant of the official syllabary was initially removed so that Inuktitut could be typed and printed using IBM Selectric balls in the 1970s.
		In the 1870\'s, Edmund Peck, an Anglican missionary adapted the Cree syllabary to Inuktitut.
	www.canadaiworld.com /wiki-Inuktitut_syllabics (473 words)

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