JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Grapheme, Inherent Vowel, Mnemonic
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Lecture 12: north american writing + polygraphia and reasons for. Mi"kmaq: first nations band of languages around the atlantic canada. Hieroglyphics: french missionary saw children writing symbols on birch bark (not full writing system but mnemonic device) -> adapted to write christian prayers. Create more -> easier to memorize and write prayers. Only 1 book printed most lost in shipment -> incomplete documentation. Con: only christian topics (writing representing writing of language; possible that the writing system was used to write other utterances but not documented) Saanich schools taught saanich languages (coastal british columbia) Created an orthography for this language because it was difficult to teach without one. Dave elliot tried to write language phonetically but it was complex -> created an alphabet (based on roman but with only uppercase letters except for and ) Comma = not punctuation but grapheme for sound. Not actually syllabary but an abugida-style moraic writing system.
