non-final w: · ( mid-dot)
final -y: ˙ ( high-dot )
h: "
James Evans’ Cree Syllabic chart from 1841.
| e | ē | i | ī | o | ō | a | ā | final | |||||
| Vowel |
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-w final | |||||||||||
| p | |||||||||||||
| t | |||||||||||||
| k | |||||||||||||
| c | |||||||||||||
| m | |||||||||||||
| n | |||||||||||||
| s | |||||||||||||
| y | -hk final | ||||||||||||
| sp | -r, -l final | ||||||||||||
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non-final w: · ( mid-dot) final -y: ˙ ( high-dot ) h: " |
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| From Nichols: 1984 | |||||||||||||
A few interesting things to notice on this early Syllabic chart.
1. Long vowels are marked not by a dot-accent, but by cancelling (putting a white line through) the character.
2. There is a distinction between short <e> and long <ē>, which does not exist in Cree (all e's are long)
3. There is a rare <sp> syllabic series which is no longer used.