Editing Inuit languages (section)

=== Canadian syllabics ===
{{further|Inuktitut syllabics}}
[[File:Inuktitut.svg|thumb|upright=1.81|right|The syllabics used to write Inuktitut ''(titirausiq nutaaq)''. The characters with the dots represent long vowels: in the Latin transcription, the vowel would be doubled.]]

Inuktitut syllabics, used in Canada, is based on [[Cree syllabics]], devised by the missionary [[James Evans (linguist)|James Evans]] based on [[Devanagari]], a [[Brahmi script]]. The present form of Canadian Inuktitut syllabics was adopted by the [[Inuit Cultural Institute]] in Canada in the 1970s.

Though presented in syllabic form, syllabics is not a true [[syllabary]] but an [[abugida]], since syllables starting with the same consonant are written with graphically similar letters.

All of the characters needed for Inuktitut syllabics are available in the [[Unicode]] character repertoire, in the blocks [[Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode block)|Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics]].