Penobscot Syllabics (ᑆᕋᕚᓂᐤᑄᐤᓯᐤᔨᕕ)

The Penobscot Syllabics system was devised by Connor Flood to write the language of his grandmother's people, Pânawâhtpskewî (better known as Penobscot), an Eastern Abenaki language that was spoken in Maine in the USA until the 1990s and which is being revived. It uses Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, a syllabary used for various North American indigenous languages, based on Eastern Cree Syllabics, Quechua Syllabics and Blackfoot.

Notable features

Type of writing system: featural syllabary
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: Penobscot (Pânawâhtpskewî)
Each sign is rotated depending on the vowel it is attached to.
If there is no attached vowel, a consonants "a form" is followed by and indicative symbol (ᐤ) to show that.
Word-final consonants are indicated with a smaller, like in Moose Cree.
If the vowel comes before the consonant as opposed to after it, the corresponding vowel form is followed by an indicative symbol (ᖅ) to show that.

Penobscot Syllabics alphabet

Note

The Latin transliteration system used here was devised by Connor Flood. Other spelling systems are available.

Download an alphabet chart for Penobscot Syllabics

Sample sentence in Penobscot Syllabics

ᕡᖨᐤᑲᔉᕮ ᕉᒟᓂᐤᑲᕕᑗᓃᒛᑿᓒ ᑿᓂᐤᖭᓵᕋᕙᓒ.

Transliteration

ezgwate nêmihgawidêhâmêgog gohzêsênawag.

Translation

Still they remember me.

Information about Penobscot | Numbers

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