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The rotation design, adapted once more.
Also known as: Blackfoot syllabary
The script adapted from Cree syllabics for the Blackfoot language of the northern plains.
Writes Blackfoot using rotating characters adapted from Cree syllabics.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The Cree design spread across languages of several unrelated families, which is unusual for a syllabary and follows from the fact that its structure is a rule rather than a list of characters to memorise.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular figures rotated to indicate the vowel, following the Cree design with adaptations for Blackfoot phonology.