加拿大原住民音節文字(,),是一系列的音節文字,用於書寫幾種加拿大境内原住民語言,這些語言分別屬於阿爾岡昆語族、愛斯基摩-阿留申語系和德內語支。目前該文字通行的地區以加拿大北方的努納福特為主,並同時與拉丁字母一起並列使用。
基本造字原則
元音旋轉
如果一組音節有相同的聲母,而聲母後的元音不同,那麽就通過旋轉字符表示元音差異。比如。
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歷史
19世紀英國傳教士、語言學家受天城文和速記法的啓發發明了這套文字。
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其他韻尾字符則來自:
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各語言的字符
東克里語
因紐特語
Unicode加拿大原住民音節文字
注释
參考文獻
Comrie, Bernard. 2005. "Writing systems." Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gile, Bernard Comrie, eds. The world atlas of language structures,* 568-570. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925591-1
Murdoch, John. 1981. Syllabics: A successful educational innovation.* MEd thesis, University of Manitoba
Nichols, John. 1996. “The Cree syllabary.” Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. The world’s writing systems,* 599-611. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0
外部連結
- [http://www.languagegeek.com/syl/intro.html Language Geek: All About Syllabics]
- [http://www.ydli.org/dakinfo/writing.htm Carrier Writing Systems]
- [http://www.billposer.org/Papers/dulkwah.pdf Paper on Carrier Syllabics]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111003121212/http://www.scnea.com/plainscree/SYLLABICS/SYLLABIC_HISTORY/syllabic_history.html Cree legend describing origins of syllabics]
- [http://www.tiro.com/syllabics/James_Evans/Rossville/Rossville.html Description of Evans' manner of casting type at the Rossville mission]
- [http://www.albertasource.ca/methodist/Pictures/Cree_Bible1.htm Methodist Bible in Cree syllabics]
字體下載
- [http://www.tiro.com/syllabics/resources/syllabic_resources.html Tiro Typeworks]. Syllabics fonts for several languages.
- [http://www.languagegeek.com/font/generalfont.html Language Geek]. Syllabics fonts for several languages.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325211819/http://www.eastcree.org/cree/en/resources/cree-fonts/#fonts Eastern James Bay syllabic fonts and typing packages]. Includes links to free Unicode fonts compatible for East Cree spelling, a talking syllabic chart (complete with sounds) and more information about fonts in use in Eastern James Bay Cree communities.
- [https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/tree/master/hinted/NotoSansCanadianAboriginal Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal]
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