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English: The most common form of the syllabic writing system used for Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk, Kickapoo, and several other Algonquian languages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was apparently adapted from Latin cursive but had two additional forms for covert communication.
The top row represents vowel sounds without a consonant pairing. The phonemes represented are roughly /a/, /e/, /i/, and /o/ (respectively). Each subsequent row represents the same vowel sound paired with an initial consonant. Those consonants, in order, roughly correspond to /p/, /t/, /s/, /š/, /č/, /y/, /w/, /m/, /n/, /k/, and /kw/. Jones notes that most characters correspond to more than one phoneme realization. |
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| Source | Jones, William. An Algonquin syllabary. New York, 1906. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/17001466/. |
| Author | William Jones (1871-1909) |
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