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Re: North Ameican Indian scripts - was Making money from Java
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| Peter Lacey 2005-12-06, 6:55 pm |
| docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> Of *course* they cannot spell... most tribes - the Arapahoe, the Paiute,
> the Naragansett come to mind - did not, as I recall, have an alphabetic
> language.
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The Micmac and the Cherokee had a written language ... although the
Cherokee is modern (1800's) ... this ties in with another interest of
mine - does anyone know of any resource on this topic?
Thanx
PL
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| In article <43960726.BB8FE9B1@mts.net>, Peter Lacey <lacey@mts.net> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>The Micmac and the Cherokee had a written language ... although the
>Cherokee is modern (1800's) ... this ties in with another interest of
>mine - does anyone know of any resource on this topic?
I know of no resources which cover North American Indian Scripts Making
money from Java; I bid you good hunting!
DD
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| Michael Wojcik 2005-12-07, 6:55 pm |
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In article <43960726.BB8FE9B1@mts.net>, Peter Lacey <lacey@mts.net> writes:
> docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> The Micmac and the Cherokee had a written language ... although the
> Cherokee is modern (1800's) ... this ties in with another interest of
> mine - does anyone know of any resource on this topic?
Omniglot is quite good as an introduction to various writing systems:
http://www.omniglot.com/
I haven't been reading the "Making money from Java" thread, but I'll
note that Micmac (Mi'kmaq) is generally believed to be pre-contact.
Mayan is another pre-contact North American script. In South America,
there's the Parajhara script used by some Andean natives.
If you're looking specifically for information on Cherokee and
Mi'kmaq, there's the Cherokee Nation Language page discussing the
Cherokee syllabary and a Unicode font for it:
http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/LanguagePage.asp?ID=213
among others, and for Mi'kmaq there are quite a few resources
listed at Native-Languages.org:
http://www.native-languages.org/mikmaq.htm
(That site in general might be of interest to you.)
--
Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com
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Unclean, immature and unseasonable salmon. -- Basil Bunting
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