Talk:Powhatan/Syllabic

The Syllabics here is severely disconnected to their general usage in other Algonquian languages!!
Evans's Alphabetical order for the Mississauga Ojibwe was: A B D E G J M N O U Z S (¨ ˆ ˉ H), with E and O doubling as semivowels, long vowels were indicated by doubling the vowel, and then series of glottal stop and nasalling diacritics, and included with the diacritics was H to serve as a rare asperate. Then after being transferred from southern Ontario (then, Upper Canada) to northern Manitoba (then, Rupert's Land) syllabics were refined and put out... in his alphabetical order. So, let's review the syllabics as used by Evans (in Evans), Cree (in SRO) and Ojibwe (in Fiero): Along with these "diacritics"

But different Algonquian, Dene, and Inuktitut communities had need for additional sounds, so various communities came up with their own variations. Consequently, we have these extensions:

Then things get interesting as it leaves the Algonquian circle and fully enters into the Carrier circle. Different language family so new rules, right?: CJLippert (discuss) 22:24, 24 October 2018 (UTC)