Eastern James Bay Cree fonts

Two things are required in either operating system in order to type in Cree syllabics: both a font (for the different character shapes) and a keyboard (providing a method of typing those shapes). Today’s standards require Unicode fonts.

Most people today type using the roman keyboard where each cree character corresponds to a series of roman characters on the QWERTY keyboard. Some people still use the creeboard where each cree character corresponds to only key (on the QWERTY keyboard)

The following PACKAGES give a free keyboard that will work with ALLfonts and the most standard font in use.

Download STANDARD Package for PC computers, Windows 98 and up

Dowload STANDARD Package for Macintosh computers, Mac OS X and up

 To learn the syllabics and to see the mapping between the roman and syllabic orthographies , view the Syllabics Chart -complete with spoken sounds (download it here)

Watch videos explaining how to download and install Cree fonts.

Download ADVANCED Package for PC computers, Windows 98 and up

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Additional fonts

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Once you have downloaded and installed the standard package for your system, you can add other Unicode fonts.

http://www.languagegeek.com/font/fontdownload.html#Full_Unicode

 

http://www.multedata.ca/p20.htm

 

http://www.tiro.com/

 

http://www.evertype.com/emono/

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Aditional Info

Unicode Cree Syllabic Fonts for Windows and Macintosh Updated Appendix for a paper originally presented at the 37th Algonquian Conference, Ottawa 2005 by Bill JancewiczSIL International and Naskapi Development Corporation Updated May 2008

Unicode Cree Syllabics for Windows and Macintosh , by Bill Jancewicz. A paper that describes the tools available for free to type in Cree syllabics with PCs and Macintosh computers. October 2005.

[Unicode Cree Syllabics for Windows, by Bill Jancewicz. An earlier version ( 2001) of the above].

Unicode Strategy : Syllabics and Computing in the 21st Century, by Bill Jancewicz. A paper that describes the situation regarding Cree syllabics fonts and the computers which support them or not. October 2002

Answer to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) : Most of the questions people asked us (or we asked ourselves) during this project.(Also in PDF format). October 2002

Map of the Cree dialects of Canada, by Marguerite MacKenzie © 2003.

Answer to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) : Most of the questions people asked us (or we asked ourselves) during this project.(Also in PDF format).