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  2. Ojibwe writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The system embodies two principles: (1) alphabetic letters from the English alphabet are used to write Ojibwe but with Ojibwe sound values; (2) the system is phonemic in nature in that each letter or letter combination indicates its basic sound value and does not reflect all the phonetic detail that occurs. Accurate pronunciation thus cannot be ...

  3. Cree syllabics - Wikipedia

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    Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.

  4. Canadian Aboriginal syllabics - Wikipedia

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    A few western charts show full l-and r-series, used principally for loan words. In a Roman Catholic variant, r- is a normal asymmetric form, derived by adding a stroke to c-, but l- shows an irregular pattern: Despite being asymmetrical, the forms are rotated only 90°, and li is a mirror image of what would be expected; it is neither an ...

  5. Yawuru language - Wikipedia

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    Yawuru is a Western Nyulnyulan language spoken on the coast south of Broome in Western Australia.. Grammatically it resembles other Nyulnyulan languages. It has a relatively free word order.

  6. Bengali–Assamese script - Wikipedia

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    Though the modern Assamese alphabet does not use this glyph for any letter, modern Tirhuta continues to use this for va. Image 2: The native names, in Bengali–Assamese, of the three scheduled languages of India that commonly use this script, followed by their standard English names and a Latin transliteration of the native name in parentheses.

  7. Mundari Bani - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] By 1953 he had finished a set of 35 characters. He further simplified the alphabet in 1980 by reducing it to 27 alphabetical characters. In 2008 Bharat Munda Samaj, Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda and Nag reformed the script in styling and adding glyphs. Since then, fonts were developed using this standard.

  8. Dogri script - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Shompen language - Wikipedia

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    During the 20th century, the only data available were a short word list in De Roepstorff (1875), [3] scattered notes Man (1886) [4] and comparative list in Man (1889). [5]It was a century before more data became available, with 70 words being published in 1995 [6] and much new data being published in 2003, the most extensive so far. [7]