Great_Lakes_Algonquian_Syllabics,_Second_Style.png
Size of this preview:
800 × 575 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
320 × 230 pixels
|
640 × 460 pixels
|
1,024 × 736 pixels
|
1,280 × 920 pixels
|
1,467 × 1,054 pixels
.
Summary
| Description |
English:
A secondary form of the Great Lakes Algonquian syllabic system used for writing Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk, Kickapoo, and several other related languages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The primary system was apparently adapted from Latin cursive. Jones reports that this modified version was used for covert purposes; in it, the vowels are replaced with differently positioned dots and spaces.
The top row represents vowel sounds without a consonant pairing. The phonemes represented are roughly /a/, /e/, /i/, and /o/ (respectively; here, /a/ is represented as a space or null). 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.
|
| Date | |
| Source | Jones, William. An Algonquin syllabary. New York, 1906. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/17001466/ . |
| Author | William Jones (1871-1909) |
I converted the original images to grayscale, increased the contrast, and removed several ink spots in order to increase legibility.
Licensing
|
This work is in the
public domain
in the
United States
because it was
published
(or registered with the
U.S. Copyright Office
) before January 1, 1929.
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file
must
have an additional
copyright tag
indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings. |