IN DEFENCE OF A STANDARD PHONEMIC SPELLING IN ROMAN LETTERS FOR THE CANADIAN ESKIMO LANGUAGE
I N Canada several systems of writing the Eskimo language are in use at present. There is the syllabic system (small triangles, right and acute angles, semicircles, etc.), used by the great majority of the Eskimo people and several alphabetic systems based on roman letters. The syllabary, which cons...
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| Summary: | I N Canada several systems of writing the Eskimo language are in use at present. There is the syllabic system (small triangles, right and acute angles, semicircles, etc.), used by the great majority of the Eskimo people and several alphabetic systems based on roman letters. The syllabary, which consists of 48 symbols each representing a syllable, was introduced in the |
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