JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Cherokee Syllabary, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Katakana
Document Summary
Right stop-sign is east kree, from northern quebec. North american scripts that are or have been in use in north america. Syllabics canadian everywhere in canada except far west and far south. Hieroglyphics most of the symbols are either morphographic (one symbol is one morpheme) A few symbols have one glyph representing a word with lots of morphemes. A word for before looks like key, which has multiple morphemes unlike other scripts like chinese, etc. Jesuits send back letters to france; in 1691, leclerq invented writing system. It is unknown what the children leclerq saw were writing pictograms. Some symbosl resemble traditional mkmaq iconography or symology, no evidence that it was used in writing but elders recall hearing stories there was writing long ago. Missionaries sent back hand drawing of all the symbols; kauder made the typeface. Only one book printed, only one edition, made it to north america. Symbols were familiar recognized by mikmaq indigenous.
