Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of Indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing system previously. They are valued for their distinctiveness from the Latin script and for the ease with which literacy can be achieved; …

The Cree language (also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages, the mother tongue (i.e. language first learned and still understood) of approximately 96,000 people, and the language most often spoken at home of about 65,000 …

European contact. In Manitoba, The Swampy Cree's first recorded contact with Europeans was in 1600 at the mouth of the Nelson and Hayes rivers in northern Manitoba by a Hudson's Bay Company party travelling about 100 mi (160 km) inland.. First Nations. Historically, the Cree nations in the central part of the Cree continuum were classified by their relationship to Hudson …

Cree / ˈ k r iː / (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador. If considered one language, it is the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers in Canada. The only region where Cree has any official status …

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is a First Nations band government located 105 kilometres (65 mi) northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, representing people of the Cree ethno-linguistic group in the area around Lac La Biche, Alberta, where the band office is currently located.Their treaty area is Treaty 6.The Intergovernmental Affairs office consults with persons on the Government treaty contacts …

Inuktitut syllabics (Inuktitut: ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ, romanized: qaniujaaqpait, or ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ, titirausiq nutaaq) is an abugida-type writing system used in Canada by the Inuktitut-speaking Inuit of the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik and Nunatsiavut regions of Quebec and Labrador, respectively.In 1976, the Language Commission of the Inuit Cultural Institute made it ...

Number digits in Enclosed Alphanumerics: ???? ⒈ ⒉ ⒊ ⒋ ⒌ ⒍ ⒎ ⒏ ⒐; In Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, in addition to the middle dot as a letter, centred dot diacritic, and dot above diacritic, there also is a two-dot diacritic in the Naskapi language representing /_w_V/ which depending on the placement on the specific Syllabic letter may resemble a colon when placed vertically ...

Acehnese (on occasion, after the colonization by the Dutch); Adyghe (before 1927 and Latin script [1927–1938], now uses the Cyrillic script); Afrikaans (briefly, in the early 19th century); Arabic. Algerian; Egyptian; Lebanese; Moroccan; Iraqi; Tunisian; and many other varieties of Arabic. Afar (Kabir Hamza script); Azerbaijani (Iran only); Arwi; Bakhtiari; Balochi

Inuktitut (/ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k t ɪ t ʊ t /; Inuktitut: [inuktiˈtut], syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from inuk, "person" + -titut, "like", "in the manner of"), also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line [clarification needed], including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, to some ...

The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and adjacent subarctic, reaching farthest south in Labrador.The related Yupik languages (spoken in western and southern Alaska, as well as in nearby Russia's farthest east, though severely endangered there) are the two main branches …