Kekiwin

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The Book of Scripture by Carl Faulmann: A page of text about the types of communication of the North American Indians

Kekiwin is the name for a pictographic font of the Ojibwa Indians , who belong to the large Algonquin language family and are also called Chippewa or Anishinabe .

The Kekiwin is for information. Its generally understandable symbols (pictograms) are shown as messages - waymarks, directional signs - for the traveler mostly in large rock inscriptions, so-called muzzisabiks ; They can also be found on tree trunks and in burial grounds ( Faulmann speaks of corpse stones, which is probably due to a literal translation.)

In addition to the Kekiwin, the Ojibwa have a second typeface called Kekinowin . The characters in this script are ideograms , the meaning of which is not generally known. In a further distinction, the Kekiwin can also be defined as exoteric and the Kekinowin as esoteric .

literature

  • Carl Faulmann: The Book of Writing, containing the characters and alphabets of all times and all peoples of the world , Greno Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Nördlingen 1985 (reprint of the Vienna edition from 1880); ISBN 392156851X
  • Heymann Steinthal : Small writings on language theory , G. Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1970 (reprint)