Latin glottal stop in ID in NWT, Canada

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Fri Oct 30 14:09:03 CDT 2015


On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:07:36 +0000
Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org] On Behalf Of
> Philippe Verdy Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 6:26 AM
> 
> > On the opposite, Native Americans HAVE used the Cyrillic script in
> > Alaska and probably as well in North-Western territories in Canada…
> 
> In Alaska, yes, because the languages in question are, in fact,
> Siberian languages.

I wouldn't describe Tlingit as a Siberian language.  There are some
old Cyrillic script Christian materials in Tlingit. The Canadian
connections are in British Columbia and Yukon.

Richard.



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