Carrier syllabics
Script for the Carrier language of British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carrier or Déné syllabics (ᑐᑊᘁᗕᑋᗸ, Dʌlk'ʷahke, (Dulkw'ahke) meaning toad feet) is a script created by Adrien-Gabriel Morice for the Carrier language. It was inspired by Cree syllabics and is one of the writing systems in the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics Unicode range.
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Carrier syllabics | |
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Script type | graphically moraic alphabet
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Creator | Adrien-Gabriel Morice |
Time period | Created in 1885, with its usage beginning to fade in the 1920s |
Languages | Carrier (Dakelh) |
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Sister systems | Cree syllabary, which also influenced the design of the letters |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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