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The syllabic script of Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the Canadian Eastern Arctic
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This page has been translated automatically. Writing is a fairly recent phenomenon among most Canadian Inuit. Until the middle of the 19th century, it was only present in Labrador, where Moravian missionaries of German origin had introduced a Latin writing system (very similar to the one they had introduced in Greenland). From 1855, two Wesleyan missionaries, John Horden and Edwin A. Watkins, introduced to the Inuit of southeast Hudson Bay the syllabic writing system that James Evans had invented in the 1830s-40s to transcribe Ojibwe and Cree (two languages of the Algonquian family).