Gwich’in alphabet

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The Gwich’in alphabet is a Latin-based writing system adapted to represent the sounds of the Gwich’in language spoken by the Gwich’in people of Alaska and northwestern Canada.


Statements (20)
Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
associatedEthnicity Gwich’in people
basedOn English alphabet
continent North America
country Canada
United States
direction left-to-right
family Latin script
language Gwich’in language
primaryUse writing Gwich’in language
purpose representation of Gwich’in phonology
region Alaska
northwestern Canada
script Latin script
scriptType alphabetic
usedBy Gwich’in people
userCommunity Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic
writingSystemClass Latin-derived orthography
writingSystemType Latin-based alphabet

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Gwich’in
usesAlphabet

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