Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

/kəˈneɪ.di.ən ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪn.l̩ sɪˈlæb.ɪks/

proper noun

A syllabic script used to write several Inuit and First Nations languages in Canada.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A syllabic script used to write several Inuit and First Nations languages in Canada.

    The practical outcome, however, is that much of the written documentation and literary record of Eastern Arctic Inuit, who form a large majority of the population of Nunavut, has been produced in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics,[…]

    2020 November 26, Spencer Acadia, Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 393

Translations

Icelandic kanadískt atkvæðatáknróf
  • kanadískt atkvæðatáknrófa script used to write inuit languages

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

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Cite this entry
APA

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Canadian%20Aboriginal%20Syllabics

MLA

“Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Canadian%20Aboriginal%20Syllabics. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Canadian%20Aboriginal%20Syllabics.

Source: Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.