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    The Yugtun or Alaska script is a syllabary invented around the year 1900 by Uyaquq to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Uyaquq, who was monolingual...
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    The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...
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    Ndyuka Alaska or Yugtun script – Central Yup'ik Bété Cherokee – Cherokee Cypriot – Arcadocypriot Greek Geba – Naxi Iban or Dunging script – Iban Kana – Japanese...
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  • Central Alaskan Yupʼik (also rendered Yupik, Central Yupik, or indigenously Yugtun) is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the Eskimo–Aleut...
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    Siberian Yupik active speaker remains in Russia. Central Alaskan Yup'ik (also Yugtun, Central Yup'ik, Yup'ik, West Alaska Eskimo): spoken on the Alaska mainland...
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  • descendants, received the idea for the first version of the script he used to write his dialect, Yugtun, in a dream. Reverend John Hinz, a Moravian missionary...
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  • Philippines. Like Yugtun and Fox script, it is based on cursive Latin. The script was developed approximately 1920–1937. "Although the script is used for representing...
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    Rongorongo (redirect from Ta'u script)
    observing English-language newspapers, or Uyaquk's invention of the Yugtun script after being inspired by readings from Christian scripture, involved...
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    Inuktitut syllabics (category Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes)
    Inuit Cultural Institute made it the co-official script for the Inuit languages, along with the Latin script. The name qaniujaaqpait [qaniujaːqpaˈit] derives...
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    (Canada) ICI Standard Latin script (Canada) Nunatsiavut Latin script (Canada) Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait (Canada) Alaskan Inupiaq script (US) Greenlandic Though...
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    Inuktitut alphabet in Greenland during the 1760s that was based on the Latin script. (This alphabet is distinguished by its inclusion of the letter kra, ĸ.)...
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    within the Inca Empire (15th century CE). Prior to the creation of the Yugtun script to write Central Alaskan Yupʼik (c. 1900), the Uyaquq people also used...
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    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    is the constructed script of the auxiliary Eskayan language of the island of Bohol in the Philippines. Like Yugtun and Fox script, it is based on cursive...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    many loans from Danish and English. The language has been written in Latin script since Danish colonization began in the 1700s. Greenlandic's first orthography...
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    Central Alaskan Yup'ik (5,000 speakers ±50%) General Central Alaskan Yup'ik (Yugtun) Chevak Cupꞌik (Cugtun) Nunivak Cupʼig (Cugtun) (5–25 speakers) Naukan (Nuvuqaghmiistun)...
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    also developed their own writing systems, the best known being the Maya script. The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    Aleut language (category Languages written in Cyrillic script)
    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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    the Alaskan and Siberian Yupik, the Iñupiat eventually adopted the Latin script that Moravian missionaries developed in Greenland and Labrador. Native Alaskans...
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  • Yugtun script c. 1900. Naum Veqilharxhi - Albanian, invented the Vithkuqi alphabet in 1845. Wanyan Xiyin - Manchurian scribe, invented Jurchen script...
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    syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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