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Papers on Syllabics

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Some General Aspects of the Syllabics Orthography (html)

Syllabic Glyph Variation (html) (pdf)

As with other orthographies, syllabics has several font styles, which have, over the years, changed and evolved. Each font style has its own versions of how syllabic characters should look.

Is Syllabics an Abugida? (html)

Many sources on line describe the Cree script (i.e. syllabics) as an abugida. Is this entirely accurate?