Innovation and Inspiration : The Development of Inuktitut Syllabic Orthography
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...
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Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal
1993
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Online Access: | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/003027ar https://doi.org/10.7202/003027ar |