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A highly modified alternate version of Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics.

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English: A third, highly modified form of the Great Lakes Algonquian syllabic system used for writing Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk, Kickapoo, and several other related languages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The primary system was apparently adapted from Latin cursive. Jones reports that this version was used for covert purposes; in it, each character is replaced with an alternate symbol of uncertain origin. The top row represents vowel sounds without a consonant pairing. The phonemes represented are roughly /a/, /e/, /i/, and /o/ (respectively). Each subsequent row represents the same vowel sound paired with an initial consonant. Those consonants, in order, roughly correspond to /p/, /t/, /s/, /š/, /č/, /y/, /w/, /m/, /n/, /k/, and /kw/. Jones notes that most characters correspond to more than one phoneme realization.
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Source Jones, William. An Algonquin syllabary. New York, 1906. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/17001466/.
Author William Jones (1871-1909)

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