tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 14 12:33:02 1995
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Re: Q
- From: Adam Walker <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Q
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 14:29:01 -0600
- Organization: Dallas Baptist University
>
> >I wonder how the American Indians that Okrand has studied do the alphabet
> >and if that would influence an alphabet that he might provide us.
>
> Most Native American cultures don't have a native writing system. I think
> some Inuits do. The famous case of Cherokee is a syllabary, and presumably
> each graph is named by its syllable.
>
> ~mark
>
>
The Cree also have a native writing system as do at least one tribe
in Alaska, though I forget which. Both are sylabic.
Qapla'
Qogh.