Western Cree syllabics
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Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree. It is used for all Cree dialects west of approximately the Manitoba–Ontario border in Canada, as opposed to Eastern Cree syllabics. It is also occasionally used by a few Cree speakers in the United States.
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Western Cree syllabics | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 1840s-present |
Languages | Plains Cree, Woods Cree, western dialects of Swampy Cree |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Child systems | Eastern Cree, Blackfoot, Slavey, Dogrib, Beaver, Sayisi (Chipewyan), Carrier |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cans (440), Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Canadian Aboriginal |
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, U+1400–167F (chart) | |
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