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Rotation carries the vowel.
Also known as: Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, Evans syllabics
The script devised in the nineteenth century for Cree and adapted across northern North America.
Writes Cree and related languages with characters whose rotation names the vowel.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Encodes the consonant in the shape and the vowel in the rotation, so a learner acquires four syllables for every shape memorised — a design that makes the system dramatically faster to learn than an equivalent syllabary of unrelated characters.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Simple angular characters whose orientation — pointing up, down, left or right — changes the vowel while the shape carries the consonant.