The Yugtun or Alaska script is a syllabary invented around the year 1900 by Uyaquq to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Uyaquq, who was monolingual in Yup'ik but had a son who was literate in English,[2] initially used Indigenous pictograms as a form of proto-writing that served as a mnemonic in preaching the Bible. However, when he realized that this did not allow him to reproduce the exact words of a passage the way the Latin alphabet did for English-speaking missionaries, he and his assistants developed it until it became a full syllabary.[3] Although Uyaquq never learned English or the Latin alphabet, he was influenced by both.[2] The syllable kut, for example, resembles the cursive form of the English word good.
The Yup'ik language is now generally written in the Latin alphabet.[2]
^The Pater Noster in Uyaquk's pictograms, 1909
^ abcCoulmas, Florian (1999). "Yupik writing". The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 572–573. ISBN 9780631194460.
^Ian James, "Yugtun script", Sky Knowledge, April 2012
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