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	Cree syllabics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cree syllabics are the variations on Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics that are used to write Cree language dialects.
		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.
		Not all eastern Cree dialects are written with syllabics - the dialects of eastern Quebec use the Roman alphabet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cree_syllabics (413 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.
		An unpointed inscription in Swampy Cree, using the conventions of Western Cree syllabics.
		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 (734 words)

	Cree Information Center - cree summer
		Cree dialects, except for those spoken cree indian names and their english meaning in eastern cree tools Quebec and Labrador, cree translation are traditionally written using Cree syllabics, a variant of Canadian fish cree lake macintyre lake Aboriginal Syllabics, but can be written with the Roman alphabet as northern cree well.
		Cree is one of the cree transportation cree ivey seven official languages of the Northwest Territories, but is only spoken cree family structure by a small number of people cree tribe traditions there in the area cree mp3 around the town of Fort Smith.
		Cree is one of the least endangered aboriginal cree indians ceremony languages in North cree nation America, but is nonetheless at risk since cree religion it possesses little institutional support in plains cree most areas.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_A_-_C/Cree.html (659 words)

	Cree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Quebec, however, almost all Crees speak fluent Cree; English and French are nevertheless used in the work place, in public administration and for external relations.
		Skilled buffalo hunters and horsemen, the Cree were allied to the Assiniboine of the Sioux before encountering English and French settlers in the sixteenth century.
		As hunters and prime suppliers of pelts the Cree are drawn into the fur trade with the French and the English, soon becoming middlemen by establishing treaties with other First Nations, notably the Plains Assiniboine and the Blackfoot.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Cree (1258 words)

	Inuktitut Sylabics
		Eventually Evans was relocated to a Cree settlement, where he learned the local language and began work adapting his syllabic script to a translation of the New Testament under the direction of Rev. John Hordon.
		The syllabic writing system was meant to be mechanically printed right from the onset, and Evans actually produced crude letterpress forms with the scant materials he had available.
		Standardization of many aspects of syllabics are needed, including sorting methods, text processing tools as well as transcoders for the vast majority of computers that can't use Unicode and for Inuit in other regions that do not read syllabics.
	www.itk.ca /communications/technology-syllabics.php (1880 words)

	Glossary, Cree Indian Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The supposed L dialect is a "Woods Cree" dialect from from northern Alberta and Saskatchewan.
		The H dialect is a "Swampy Cree" and "Woods Cree" dialect from the east.
		Cree verbs generally follow a regular conjugation, though an added complication is the addition of near and far present and future tense.
	users.rttinc.com /~asiniwachi/bmtncre.html (2294 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		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.
		Cree is one of the least endangered aboriginal languages in North America, but is nonetheless at risk since it possesses little institutional support in most areas.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cree_language (493 words)

	Cree Language and the Cree Indian Tribe (Iyiniwok, Eenou, Eeyou, Iynu, Kenistenoag)
		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).
		Since Canadian nationhood, the Cree people have faced the same problems of self-determination and land control that every aboriginal group has, but they remain better-equipped to face them than most, and the Cree language is one of the few North American languages sure of surviving into the next century.
	www.native-languages.org /cree.htm (895 words)

	Cree (including Montagnais and Naskapi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Six of the narrators are Plains Cree; the seventh, Janet Feitz, is a Woods Cree speaker from La Ronge.
		A Cree Story for Children, Told by Nêhiyaw/Glecia Bear (1992, 40 pp., $14.95 CDN), a children's edition of one of the narratives from the larger volume, told by a 78-year old Cree woman from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan.
		It is presented in the original Cree and in English translation, and colorfully illustrated by Cree artist Jerry Whitehead.
	linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/learning/cree.htm (1332 words)

	Courageous Teaching
		The Cree of Quebec reside in the north-central region of the province in the area adjacent to James Bay.
		The syllabics chart used to represent the Eastern James Bay dialect is a modification of the basic four symbol chart that is used in writing several similar dialects of the Cree and Algonquin languages across Canada.
		At the end of the 1960's and early 1970's, Cree rivers and ecology were threatened by the construction of huge hydro-electric projects in northern Quebec: subsequent Cree opposition to the unchecked hydro-development led to the creation of the Grand Council of the Crees in 1974, which represented nine Cree communities of Northern Quebec.
	www.bcc.ctc.edu /frc/pluralism/walker.html (3461 words)

	WATS.ca - web accessiblity technical services \| Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
		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.
		Samples of Cree may be found at the Cree Language Reader and Daniel 1:1-21 O.T., and some samples of Inuktitut at the Inuktitut Language Reader and at http://www.assembly.nu.ca/unicode/fonts/index-iu.html.
	www.wats.ca /show.php?contentid=41 (803 words)

	Comparing Cree, Hualapai, Maori, and Hawaiian Language Programs
		A Cree syllabic had been developed over a hundred years ago, however in 1973 neither Cree language materials for education purposes existed nor did the Cree population read or write in Cree.
		In 1988, a Cree immersion program at a preschool level was instituted in reaction to code-switching or "sloppy" Cree being used by teen language learners.
		Parents are enrolling in Cree syllabics courses, motivated by their children's language acquisition.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/TIL_21.html (6292 words)

	Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
		For instance, Inuktitut GHA shall not be separately encoded from Cree CA; the characters are identical regardless of the pronunciation.
		Syllabics text is in common use for aboriginal items such as newspapers, magazines, books, educational materials etc.; the BMP is the appropriate plane for the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics repertoire to be encoded.
		Syllabics were first invented in the late 1830's by James Evans for Algonquian languages and, as other communities and linguistic groups adopted the script, the main structural principles described above were adopted as well.
	www.evertype.com /standards/sl/n1441-en.html (2557 words)

	Native Studies Directory, Heritage Databank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Cree are not indiginous the the west; this is the generally held view held by past historians, based on the fact that the Cree were first encountered in Ontario.
		Western history effectively begins with the arrival of the Hudson's Bay Company posts; they are apparently unaware that there were other predecessors and other companies, and consistently misnames NWC personnel and posts as HBC.
		The Cree were dependant on the trading posts and would have starved had they not been able to obtain food from the posts; totally ignoring the fact that the Cree were the main suppliers pemmican for the subsistence of the posts and the fur transport system.
	users.rttinc.com /~asiniwachi/wn.html (14760 words)

	Canoeing with the Cree
		First published in 1935, "Canoeing with the Cree" is Sevareid's classic account of a youthful odyssey--a summer-long canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay.
		Western Cree syllabics - Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree.
		Cree Summer - Cree Summer, or Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is a Canadian / American actor and voice actress.
	al56.abricad.info /canoeingwiththecree.html (1072 words)

	Western Canadian : Sirchin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It consists of a massive wedge of sedimentary rock extending from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Canadian Shield in the east.
		Western job boom pushed unemployment rate down to 6.2 per cent in...
		Western Canadian grain farmers have to say about the ideas put forward in the report.
	sirchin.com /?topic:western-canadian (488 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I don't claim to be Cree, I don't claim to have ANY concept of your traditions, spiritual beliefs, etc. I understand your desire to get this corrected and am only trying to give you a path toward correction that would benefit all involved.
		Cree philosophy has limits - there is always consequences to your actions, as told to me by someone else.
		Crees sometimes have a folk etymology which says that it comes from 'Christian', called like this by the Europeans because they were so good people.
	www.nisto.com /cree/mail/cree-1998-01.txt (10489 words)

	Daily Trial Proceedings - General Phase / Federal Court, Calgary
		Areas covered in cross-examination included the time of significant contact between the Cree on the Plains and Europeans; the western migration theory respecting the Cree, and the types of goods that were traded.
		W.C. Wolfart is a linguist whose expertise is in the linguistic analysis of the Cree language.
		Following her ancestry she was able to give the court a view of the lives of Mustusomay and Kanatakasu, confirming their presence in Bear Hills and surrounding area, as well as the role of Kanatakasu as leader.
	www.samsoncree.org /overview/daily/daily_03.html (2477 words)

	Cree Syllabics for Windows
		Note that the system I first developed to keyboard Naskapi syllabics is similar to but different from the Cree system, because of the unique local orthography in use at Kawawachikamach.
		We have several Naskapi persons, some elders but mostly people in their 20s and 30s who thought that they would never read syllabics, now producing their own syllabic literature in a quality that is accepted and read by others in the community.
		These syllabic fonts have re-defined the upper 128 ANSI codes to be syllabic characters.
	www.creeculture.ca /e/language/font_info.html (1729 words)

	Universal Syllabic Transcriptor - Introduction
		Some would regard such syllabic writing as a more traditional means of written expression (orthography) of native language.
		Loss of native languages, especially dialects in the written form (syllabic orthography) is de facto done (except of Nunavut, where the new government language program is in force).
		Result of immediate processing output is expression of the native language text in the syllabic glyphs orthography of selected native language or dialect.
	www.nehiyo.com (828 words)

	Abecedaria: Merry Xmas
		This is a verse from the Bible in James Bay Cree, published in 2001 by the Canadian Bible Society.
		However, ‘r’ is not a Cree sound and the syllabic used for ‘r’ shows that this is a non-Cree word.
		The double consonants are also foreign to Cree, so the name of Christ is identifiable as a foreign word in Cree when spelled out phonetically.
	abecedaria.blogspot.com /2005/12/merry-xmas.html (711 words)

	Syllabary
		The Inuktitut syllabary was adapted from the Cree syllabary, which itself was adapted from the Ojibwe syllabary.
		The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from ca...
		It is descended from the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, in turn a variant or derivative of Linear...
	www.simacalligraphy.info /englishcalligraphyletter/syllabary (883 words)

	NCEM -- Book Store -- Cree Language Resources
		Reprint of the British and Foreign Bible Society Gospel of John using the William Mason translation (Plains Cree).
		Written in Cree phonetics: Guide to understanding foundational truths of God's Word: salvation, assurance, growth, temptation, fellowship, prayer, living in victory, knowing the will of God and obeying it, strength from God, family life, doing good, giving, the Holy Spirit, the Church, witnessing.
		Written in syllabics, the testimony of Margaret (Budd) Bear, originally from northeastern Saskatchewan.
	ncem.gospelcom.net /md/creelanguage.htm (671 words)

	\| Need Help with Cree Font \| Typophile
		Regarding ductus, this is indeed a tricky issue for the Evans syllabics not only because of the rotation vs. reversal conventions but also because of the rotating triangles, which if actually written with a broad nib produce six different stem weights unless you rotate the hand.
		The Cree/Inuktitut syllabics are an interesting case of a script that is very important to its users in terms of ‘identity politics’, i.e.
		He notes that common sequences of syllabics are recognised as such: syllabic bouma shapes.* Of course, as we know, a person’s description of how he reads doesn’t necessarily conform to the reality of the optical and cognitive processes.
	typophile.com /node/14818 (6071 words)

	Cree Unicode Fonts
		Note: Extensive coverage of Latin and Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area).
		The Unicode implementation of Canadian Syllabics is described in chapter 12 (Additional Modern Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0.
		Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Canadian Syllabics block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
	www.wazu.jp /gallery/Fonts_Cree.html (875 words)

	Keyboard layout for Western Oji-Cree Unicode
		Please download a Languagegeek.com font to view these pages properly.
		Western Oji-Cree uses a quite divergent system of Syllabics.
		First, there is no difference between plain vowels (ᐁ) and y-series syllabics (ᔦ).
	www.languagegeek.com /algon/syllabics_keyboards/wojickbd.html (165 words)

	Biographies
		In 1885 he created the first writing system for Dakelh, the Carrier syllabics, by adapting the Northwest Territories version of the Cree syllabics.
		He is also one of the few people who still actively use the Déné syllabics, of which he is a strong proponent.
		He represented the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council on the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Encoding Committee, which created the Canadian encoding standard that ultimately became part of the international UNICODE standard.
	www.ydli.org /cultinfo/bios.htm (5520 words)

	North American Indians - Subarctic Culture Area
		In the western Subarctic the fur trade had little impact on the Native people's lifeways until late 19th century, when rapid-fire repeating rifles and commerical fishnets were introduced.
		In 1977 the Ojibway-Cree Nation of Treaty Number Nine (the 1905-1906 treating signed between the Canadian government andthe Cree and Ojibwa of the Hudson Bay drainage of Ontario) made it plain that the North is their homeland and it is not to be denuded, raped, andpillaged for the benefit of temperate-dwellers.
		For example, at one end of the spectrum were the West Main Cree, for whom fish were the primary animal resource (supplemented with caribou, bears, waterfowl, andsmall game mammals).
	www.cabrillo.edu /~crsmith/noamer_subarctic.html (3330 words)

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