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{{short description|Writing system for Cree dialects of Canada}} {{Infobox writing system |name = Cree syllabics |type = [[Abugida]] |time = 1840s–present |languages = [[Cree language|Cree]], [[Naskapi language|Naskapi]], [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]]/[[Chippewa language|Chippewa]]<ref>[http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Cans ScriptSource.org]</ref> |fam1 = [[Devanagari]], [[Pitman shorthand]] |unicode = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1400.pdf U+1400–U+167F] {{nobr|Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics,}}<br />[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U18B0.pdf U+18B0–U+18FF] {{nobr|Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended}} |iso15924= |sample = Winnipeg Forks - Plains Cree Inscription.jpg |imagesize = |caption=An [[Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics#Points_and_pointing|unpointed]] inscription in [[Plains Cree language|Plains Cree]], using the conventions of [[Western Cree syllabics]]. The text transliterates to <br />''Êwako oma asiniwi mênikan kiminawak <br />ininiwak manitopa kaayacik. Êwakwanik oki <br />kanocihtacik asiniwiatoskiininiw kakiminihcik <br />omêniw. Akwani mitahtomitanaw askiy asay <br />êatoskêcik ota manitopa.'' }} {{Contains special characters|Canadian}} {{Indigenous Peoples of Canada}}[[Image:Cree type proof.jpg|thumb|A proof from freshly made Cree [[typeface]]]] '''Cree syllabics''' are the versions of [[Canadian Aboriginal syllabics]] used to write [[Cree language|Cree dialects]], including the original syllabics system created for Cree and [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]]. There are two main varieties of syllabics for Cree: [[Western Cree syllabics]] and [[Eastern Cree syllabics]]. Syllabics were later adapted to several other languages.<ref name="Daniels">{{cite book | first=John | last=Nichols | chapter=The Cree Syllabary | editor=Peter Daniels | title=The World's Writing Systems | year=1996 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York | pages=599–611}}</ref> It is estimated that over 70,000 [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]]-speaking people use the script, from [[Saskatchewan]] in the west to [[Hudson Bay]] in the east, the US border to [[District of Mackenzie|Mackenzie]] and [[District of Keewatin|Kewatin]] (the [[Northwest Territories]] and [[Nunavut]]) in the north.<ref name="Campbell">{{cite book | first=George | last=Campbell | title=Compendium of the World's Languages, 2nd ed. | year=1991 | publisher= | location= | pages=422–428}}</ref>
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