Re: Latin glottal stop in ID in NWT, Canada

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:09:03 +0000

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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