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[Christopher Harvey]
Chris Harvey's site started out by provding keyboards and fonts for the native languages of North America. Located in Ontario, Canada, Chris Harvey's original collection included several free Unicode-compliant creations (Aboriginal Sans Unicode, Aboriginal Serif Unicode). The following were covered: Dakelh, Cherokee, Cree syllabics, Ojibway (Ojibwe, Ojibwa) syllabics, Naskapi syllabics, Dene or Athabaskan/Athapaskan (Chipewyan, Slavey) syllabics, Blackfoot syllabics, and roman orthographies of Canadian (and some US) native languages. As of 2019, he covers more than 100 Indigenous languages, including all of the ones in northern Canada, as well as languages in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. Of particular interest are his pages on syllabics. I quote some passages: "Syllabics became very popular first among the Cree people, then spread to other Algonquian languages such as Ojibway, Naskapi, and Blackfoot. Heading north and east, Syllabics were adopted by some of the Dene languages, and Inuktitut. The writing system was transferred from parent to child despite the attempts of the Canadian residential school system to obliterate Native languages. The system was so popular, that it has been reported that the Cree once had a near 100% literacy rate. [...] These days, Inuktitut, Cree, Naskapi, Oji-Cree, are the languages most often written in Syllabics (although Roman orthographies for these languages are also available). The others have generally switched to Roman writing systems, however some dialects, communities, or individual speakers still prefer syllabics." The list: - AboriginalSans-Bold, AboriginalSans-BoldItalic, AboriginalSans-Italic, AboriginalSans, AboriginalSerif-Bold, AboriginalSerif-BoldItalic, AboriginalSerif-Italic, AboriginalSerif: Made by Chris Harvey, 2004-2006. These are full aboriginal Unicode fonts that include Syllabics (Cree, Ojibway, Naskapi, Inuktitut, Dakelh, Blackfoot, Dene), Cherokee and Latin.
- AfRomanSerif-Bold, AfRomanSerif-BoldItalic, AfRomanSerif-Italic, AfRomanSerif, AfSans-Bold, AfSans (Chris Harvey, 2004):
- Digohweli (Chris Harvey, 2006): for Cherokee. Free download. This font was adopted as the official Cherokee Nation font.
- Kayases (Chris Harvey, 2006): for Blackfoot, Dene, Algonquian (Cree, Ojibway, Naskapi), Dakelh (Carrier Dene) and Inuktitut.
- Kisiska (Chris Harvey, 2005): for Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Northern Ojibway, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, Saulteaux Ojibway, Dene.
- Masinahikan-Bold, Masinahikan-SemiBold, Masinahikan (Chris Harvey, 2005): for Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Eastern Ojibway, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, Oji-Cree, Western Ojibway, F-C Dene.
- OskiBlackfoot-Bold, OskiBlackfoot-BoldItalic, OskiBlackfoot-Italic, OskiBlackfoot (Chris Harvey, 2003): for Blackfoot.
- OskiDakelh-Bold, OskiDakelh-BoldItalic, OskiDakelh-Italic, OskiDakelh (Chris Harvey, 2004): for Dakelh (Carrier Dene).
- OskiDeneA-Bold, OskiDeneA-BoldItalic, OskiDeneA-Italic, OskiDeneA, OskiDeneB-Bold, OskiDeneB-BoldItalic, OskiDeneB-Italic, OskiDeneB, OskiDeneC-Bold, OskiDeneC-BoldItalic, OskiDeneC-Italic, OskiDeneC, OskiDeneS-Bold, OskiDeneS-BoldItalic, OskiDeneS-Italic, OskiDeneS (Chris Harvey, 2005): for Dene (Chipewyan, Beaver, Dene, South Slavey.
- OskiEast-Bold, OskiEast-BoldItalic, OskiEast-Italic, OskiEast (Chris Harvey, 2003): for Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Eastern Ojibway.
- OskiWest-Bold, OskiWest-BoldItalic, OskiWest-Italic, OskiWest (Chris Harvey, 2003): for Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, Oji-Cree, Western Ojibway.
- Pitabek (Chris Harvey, 2005): for Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Oji-Cree, Western Ojibway, Chipewyan (F-C), Dogrib (F-C), Slavey (F-C), Beaver (F-C), Dene.
- RotinonhsonniSans-Bold, RotinonhsonniSans-BoldItalic, RotinonhsonniSans-Italic, RotinonhsonniSans, RotinonhsonniSerif-Bold, RotinonhsonniSerif-BoldItalic, RotinonhsonniSerif-Italic, RotinonhsonniSerif (Chris Harvey, 2004): full aboriginal Unicode fonts.
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