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12 Cards in this Set
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Saanich language |
-coast Salish BC -5 native speakers left -written in SENCOTEN -residential school influence -initiative to teach SENCOTEN 1960 by Dave Elliott |
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SENCOTEN |
-1978 alphabet with lin background -<s> and <,> exceptions to uppercase |
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Aboriginal Syllabics |
-abugida style moraic -base graphemes modified by rotation/reflection for vowels -separate graphemes for codas |
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Origins |
-James Evans 1820 move to Canada -taught at Ojibwe mission schools -syllabic basis for long Algonquian words -inspiration from Devanagari (grapheme shapes, modification for vowel) -inspiration from shorthand (small graphemes for coda, thick and thin) |
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Pitman shorthand |
-system of abbreviation -consonant-vowel combination -1937 -stroke width voicing distinction |
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Cree Syllabics |
-original 1840 system 10 base consonants -/sp/ grapheme obsolete -distinct graphemes for coda |
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Devanagari connection |
-shapes of syllabics stemless graphemes |
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Success of Syllabics |
-Evans melted metal scraps to make types for printing press -cree syllabics bible published |
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Vowel Modification |
-rotating or flipping grapheme indicated vowels |
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Modern writing system |
-originally long vowel marked by bold grapheme -now marked with dot -Eastern and Western dialects added graphemes (theta and /w/ diff) |
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East and West Coda |
-West: kept original system -East: uses small versions of initial graphemes |
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Inuktitut |
-official lang of Nunavut -Roman and syllabic system -Moravian missionaries mid 1800s -1855 first print in cree syllabics -Horden and Watkins met 1865 to devise Inuktitut syllabics -printing in new system began 1870s |
