Oji-Cree Syllabarium

See Glossary for terminology explinations.

Finals are in the Western style, except for the y-final which is an eastern a-final.

Two sounds do not have independent syllabics series. Used for foreign sounds /l/ and /r/, are written with ᓬ ᕒ as in my name ᑲᕒᐃᐢ.

Often, the decision to use the /h/ is inconsistent. Some speakers fully “point” their texts (i.e. include all finals, and h’s), while other speakers omit some or all of these. The /h/ character ᐦ is also used before a p-, t-, k-, č-, s-, or š-series syllabic to indicate voicelessness. The long vowels are not written any differently than their short counterparts.

Where Roman orthographies typically put hyphens between preverbs and verb stems, Syllabics texts either write the preverbs as separate words, or write the entire verb complex as a single word.

Last Update: August 20, 2008