Great Lakes Aboriginal syllabics

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Great Lakes Aboriginal syllabics is a Latin-based syllabic system used by the Native Americans tribes surrounding the Great Lakes. It is most closely associated with the Ho-chunk language, but it was also used by the Menomini, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox. Since it resembles cursive Roman script, it has not been included in Unicode.

Each syllabic unit may contain at least one of the syllabic element, separated by a space between each of the syllabic units. Consonantal letter element alone can represent consonant value alone or consonant value with an inherent <a>, thus making this syllabics system classified as an Abugida system.

[edit] Correspondence Table

Because Great Lakes Aboriginal syllabics is not part of the Unicode standards, glyphs for this table have been substituted with alphabetic type-set letters approximating their handwritten forms.

Ho-Chunk Potawatomi Odawa Meshkwaki Ojibwe
' ' ' ' ' / h
(A)² h h h h
a¹ a a a a a / aa
a(H)² aa
a(n)² ą an
a(Hn)² aanh / aany
d j sh j
d(A)² c / c'
e e e / é e e³ e
e(Hn)² enh / eny
g -g -g kw / gw
H¹ gh
H(A)¹ ² x / x'
I¹ y y y y
i i i i i³ i / ii
i(n)² į in
i(H)² ii
i(Hn)² iinh / iiny
j zh
K g g g k k / g
K(A)² k / k' k k
l b b b p
l(A)² p / p' p p
m m m m m m
n n n n n n
o o o o o³ o / oo
o(n)² ų on
o(H)² oo
o(Hn)² oonh / oony
oo u
oo(n)² ų
q gw gw / ġ kw
q(A)² kw kw / ḳ
r z
r(A)² s / s'
s r z z s s / z
s(A)² s s
sH zh zh sh
sH(A)² sh sh
t d d d t / d
t(A)² t / t' t t
tt dj j j ch ch
tt(A)² tc / tc' ch ch
u¹ a a a a
w w w w w w
x¹ gh
x(A)¹ ² x / x'
y¹ y y y y y
˙ e³
. i³
.. o³
¹ Depending on the style, "a" or "u", "H" or "x", and "I" or "y" are used.
² The portion shown within the parentheses are not always written.
³ Meskwaki <e>, <i> and <o> may be shown using vowel dots instead of vowel letter.

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