2 Algonquian languages in shorthand

[Leanne Riding]

That's pretty neat,
so what I'm understanding is that Le Jeune used the KW to share
information with Salish-and-CJ-speaking peoples, about other native
people such as the Cree and the Algonquian Montagnais. He therefore
printed the information in the shorthand script that they could read,
instead of roman characters or the Cree scripts etc. that were
unfamiliar, wikna? :)


On Friday, July 9, 2004, at 08:59 , David Robertson wrote:
>
> The Algonquian texts I've found were collected by a priest and put into
> shorthand by another priest.  That other priest was Le Jeune (who
> recalled
> one of these Cree songs again 8 years later, singing it to priest A, as
> recounted in an issue of KW), so the shorthand used is essentially
> Kamloops Wawa script.  No priests I know of in actual Cree country used
> shorthand to write Cree.  Let me put it another way--shorthand was
> apparently used only for Salish languages and Chinook Jargon, among
> Canada's Native languages.
>
> Tangentially: There's a tantalizing discussion of the 'Rabits Skin
> lalang'
> (Peaux de Lievre / Hare Athapaskan language) in the same KW where I
> found
> the Cree stuff, but no sample of that language.  Shucks.
>
> --Dave R.
>

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