No overt relation between Cree syllabics & Duployan

[Dave Robertson]

Klahowya, Liland,

Sounds like you're providing the answers to your own questions!  You clearly know more than I do about all this, and the reason I've referred to "East Cree" is that that website is the only exposure I've had to Cree syllabics.  It's really an excellent work-in-progress, by the way, an interactive grammar of that dialect of Cree, additions to which are being made as time goes by.

Kloshe nanitch,
Dave

"Liland Brajant Ros'" <lilandbr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Dave, I'm just wondering: What exactly do you mean by "East Cree
> syllabics"? As far as I have ever been able to discern the syllabary that is
> used for the Eastern Cree dialects is to all intents and purposes the same
> as the one used in Plains Cree, and for that matter in some Ojibwe circles,
> as well as for Chipewyan and Inuktitut, among others. The differences (even
> across language-family boundaries) don't seem any greater than, say, the
> forms of the Latin alphabet used in Italian, Swahili and Vietnamese. I
> always just say "Cree syllabics", and "East Cree" here makes me think there
> must be a distinct and separate set of "West Cree" syllabics (or, if I
> didn't know better, might lead me to suppose West Cree was not written
> syllabically).
>
> lilEnd
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