The Aleutian islands are a long way from NWT. I don't associate Tlingit with the Aleutians, and wasn't aware of an early Cyrillic orthography. But it's also not a language of NWT. It's spoken in areas near the coast. My sister lives in Carcross, which is a Tlingit village. This is hundreds of miles from NWT.
Peter Sent from my IBM 3277/APL ________________________________ From: Richard Wordingham<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 10/30/2015 16:37 To: Unicode Discussion<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Latin glottal stop in ID in NWT, Canada On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:03:31 +0000 Peter Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > This is more plausible. The Tlingit peoples live in coastal regions, > SW parts of Yukon Territory and Alaska. That's not what I would have > referred to as "Northwest Territories". And it's totally not related > to the thread, which was clearly about Northwest Territories, not > Yukon Territory. I think Cyrillic got into the thread by mistake. > Can you point to information on Tlingit materials in Cyrillic script? Google ('Tlingit Cyrillic') does a better job than me! There's an example linked to from the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_alphabet 'Indication of the Pathway into the Kingdom of Heaven'. I presume the original spelling has been preserved. There's an interesting account in 'Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation To Native American Traditions: An Attempt At A Multicultural Society, 1794-1912' by Viacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov. It's interesting that much of the action happened under American rule - allegedly Orthodox Christianity did well because it wasn't American! Richard.
