Relevant to creating a Kamloops Wawa font?

[David Robertson]

http://www.ydli.org/dakinfo/dulkwah.htm

This is a page discussing fonts for Carrier (Dakelh) syllabics.  Various
solutions have been created.

One that I know of has you typing in English letters, which get converted
into syllable symbols.  (For example, if you typed in the word "dakelh"
the font/program would display the "da" syllable character, the "ke"
syllable character, and the small-size "lh" character that's used at the
end of syllables.)  An approach like this might be easiest for a Wawa
shorthand font, because Wawa normally breaks words up into syllables.

In the best of all worlds, I'd prefer to see a Wawa font that lets you
decide whether to break words into syllables.  The reason for this is,
some words like names, months, and religious terms were usually written
without syllable breaks.  And technically, it's "more pure" to write the
shorthand in a cursive style, without breaks...so it would be valuable to
be able to show it that way onscreen.  (At least for learning purposes.)
This all would involve making an alphabetic, not a syllabic font, which
would work something like Arabic fonts.

To spread the knowledge of Kamloops Wawa-style Chinook, and let people
read the hundreds of pages of stuff written in it, I want to encourage the
creation of a Wawa font.  Whoever works on it should demonstrate it at our
Chinook Gathering and receive major praise.

--Dave R.

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