JAL328H1 Lecture : JAL328 Lec 10 North American Scripts.pdf
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Know how scripts work and history of it (for final?) Hieroglyphics were first mentioned in the nouvelle relation de la gaspesie 1691. Chetien le clercq claimed to have invented the system. He saw children drawing marks with charcoal and listing off words as they pointed to them. Pierre maillard, 1735, augmented the traditional inventory of hieroglyphs and wrote prayer books. It is this system which spread throughout mi"kmaq territory (atlantic canada) Christian kauder had a typeface made in 1866 and printed a mi"kmaq language religious book (sent to vienna) Maillard lied that only christian topics could be written. Difficult system functioned as a mnemonic for stories already known. This system was already familiar to the people. Hieroglyphics were limited info to hide things from the people. It was a system to remember things that were already known (such as prayers) People were literate, in the sense they can read but can not write their own stuff.