Innovation and Inspiration : The Development of Inuktitut Syllabic Orthography

• Published in: Meta
• Main Author: Harper, Kenn
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 1993
• Subjects: Baleine; la Baleine; Watkins; Fort George; Moose Factory; Venn; Rivière à la Baleine; inuit; inuktitut; James Bay
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/003027ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/003027ar

In the 1850's John Harden and E.A. Watkins, missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) to James Bay, began the work of adapting James Evan's Cree syllabic orthography to Inuktitut. Watkins' introduced the syllabic writing system to Inuit at Fort George and Little Whale River...