Alaska font

Our father in Alaska script

Our father in Alaska script. 1909

The Alaska script , occasionally also Yupik script , is a syllable script that was developed around 1900 by the Yupik Uyakoq .

Uyakoq was illiterate but had some access to the spelling of the English language through his son. He therefore used English words in Latin as syllables in his script.

Yupik is now written in Latin script .

literature

Alfred Schmitt: The Alaska script and its historical meaning. Simons, Marburg 1951.
Alfred Schmitt: Studies on the history of writing. A font development in Alaska around 1900. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981, (reprint of the Leipzig 1940 edition), ISBN 3-447-02162-4 .
- Volume 1: Text. OCLC 928786380 .
- Volume 2: Illustrations. In addition to an insert - tables on Alaskan font development. OCLC 720720250 .

Single receipts

↑ Kenn Harper: Alaskan Picture Writing. In: Writing in Inuktitut: An Historical Perspective. Inuktitut (53). Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs, 1983, archived from the original on December 31, 2005 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 (English, pages 3–35).
^ Yupik writing . In: Florian Coulmas (Ed.): The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems . Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, Ox. / Cambridge, Mass. 1999, ISBN 0-631-21481-X (English, blackwellreference.com ).

[1] Kenn Harper: Alaskan Picture Writing. In: Writing in Inuktitut: An Historical Perspective. Inuktitut (53). Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs, 1983, archived from the original on December 31, 2005 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 (English, pages 3–35).

[2] Yupik writing . In: Florian Coulmas (Ed.): The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems . Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, Ox. / Cambridge, Mass. 1999, ISBN 0-631-21481-X (English, blackwellreference.com ).