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(CLICK to Enlarge) The
Algonquian syllabary, used today mainly by the Cree tribe in Canada and
employed in newspapers, magazines, and church books, such as the Bible,
hymnals and prayer books. It has long
been thought that this script was the invention of a missionary, James Evans,
in 1841. In reality, as inscriptions
from pre-Roman Spain and also on the Peterborough site in Ontario, Canada
show, the script is of very ancient origin and is due to the Basques. Barry Fell deciphered the Basque
inscriptions in Spain and Portugal in 1979 with the aid of the Algonquian
syllabary. The eminent scholar Imanol
Agiŕe has confirmed the decipherments. |
