2 Algonquian languages in shorthand

[Leanne Riding]

I can help out there,
There are two peoples that the francophones called Montagnais - the one
you mention, and the one that anglophones called Chipewyan (not the same
people as those called Chippewa) who lived closer to the Rockies.

On Friday, July 9, 2004, at 03:47 , Ros' Haruo wrote:

> And are they actually in "Kamloops wawa script" or simply in Duployan
> shorthand, in other words were their orthographies descended from
> Chinook
> Duployan or were they cognate with it? The Cree country extends west
> almost
> to British Columbia, and there were a fair number of Cree (or Mitchif)
> speakers among the pasisi, as I understand it, but I think of
> Montagnais as
> being fairly far east (basically in Quebec), and wonder how many
> Montagnais-speaking CJ speakers (let alone KW readers) there were.

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