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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, 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. Although Uyaquq never learned English or the Latin alphabet, he was influenced by both. The syllable ''kut,'' for example, resembles the cursive form of the English word ''good.'' ==Bibliography== *Florian Coulmas, 1996. ''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems'' *Albertine Gaur, 2000. ''Literacy and the Politics of Writing'' * Alfred Schmitt, 1951. ''Die Alaska-Schrift und ihre schriftgeschichtliche Bedeutung'', Simons, Marburg * Alfred Schmitt, 1981. ''Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Schrift. Eine Schriftentwicklung um 1900 in Alaska'', Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (Reprint der Ausgabe Leipzig 1940), ISBN 3-447-02162-4 * *Vol. 1 ''Text,'' vol. 2. ''Abbildungen'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yugtun script」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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