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a syllabary devised by the Reverend James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary, for the Crees (about 1840) and adapted to Eskimo toward the end of the nineteenth century.
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1859
[The Stoneys are all Christians, and some of them can read and write in their own language, using the Cree syllabic characters, which were invented by Wesleyan missionaries.]
1925
In June, 1841. . . [Evans] had so far perfected his Cree syllabics that he wrote: The men women and children at Norway House write and read it with ease and fluency. . . .
1961
[The Reverend E. J. Peck, an Anglican missionary] had translated the Gospels and some hymns from Cree syllabics into the Eskimo language [1903-4].
1965
. . . with this [fur press] he printed five thousand birchbark pages in Cree syllabics.
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