Cree syllabics. Download a script chart for Cree (Excel) Notes. This is James Evan's original syllabary for Cree as published in 1841. Vowel length was indicated making the syllables bold or by breaking the symbols (as in the image below). Later dots were used to indicate vowel length, e.g. ᐄ (ī) ᐆ (ō) ᐋ (ā).

Cree syllabics are the versions of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Cree dialects, including the original syllabics system created for Cree and Ojibwe. There are two main varieties of syllabics for Cree: Western Cree syllabics and Eastern Cree syllabics .

2006年2月6日 · Often written in syllabics (i.e., symbols representing a combination of consonant and vowel, or just a consonant or vowel), Cree is one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in Canada. In the 2021 census, 86,475 people reported speaking Cree.

2024年11月6日 · The syllabics, according to the oral accounts, were a gift from the spirit world for the benefit of the ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (Nêhiya-wak or those who speak the Cree language). They came into being through a ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ (Nêhiyaw or Cree person), not a …

Four symbols are used to accommodate the long and short vowel sounds of Cree. A special diacritical symbol is used to differentiate the long vowel sound from the short vowel sound. The short vowel sounds are not specially marked and they are spoken quickly.

The full syllabic chart shows all the symbols that are used in writing Eastern James Bay Cree. Some symbols are used only in the Southern dialect, not in the Northern - as explained below. Speakers from Wemindji, Chisasibi, Whapmagoostui, and sometimes Eastmain use ᐋ , ᐹ , ᑖ , ᒑ , ᒫ , ᓈ , ᓵ , ᔖ instead of ᐁ , ᐯ , ᑌ , ᒉ , ᒣ , ᓀ , ᓭ , ᔐ .

Within both the ‘east’ and ‘west’ sections, specific dialects or linguistic communities have some additions, omissions, and/or changes to the basic Cree syllabic system. These will be discussed below. Starting in the West (Plains or Y-Cree), there are two ways of representing the final /y/, either a raised plus sign ᕀ or a raised dot ᐝ.

The full syllabic chart shows all the symbols that are used in writing Eastern James Bay Cree. Some symbols are used only in the Southern dialect, not in the Northern, as explained below. Speakers from Wemindji, Chisasibi, Whapmagoostui, and sometimes Eastmain use †, , ¥, ­, µ, Å, Í instead of €, ‡, , Ÿ, §, ¯, ¿, Ç.

Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree. It is used for all Cree dialects west of approximately the Manitoba – Ontario border in Canada, as opposed to Eastern Cree syllabics.

In Cree syllabics, each symbol, which represents a consonant, can be written four ways, each direction representing its corresponding vowel. [19] Some dialects of Cree have up to seven vowels, so additional diacritics are placed after the syllabic to represent the corresponding vowels.