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3 unusual facts about Tlingit alphabet


Tlingit alphabet

The other most widespread transcriptions were the one used extensively by John Swanton in his Tlingit Myths and Texts and The Tlingit Language, and the one used by Frederica de Laguna in her Story of a Tlingit Village and Under Mount Saint Elias.

The recent publication of George T. Emmons's The Tlingit Indians was heavily edited by De Laguna and subsequently uses her transcription system.

It is essentially an adaptation of the American system to the limitations of plain text encodings such as ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252.



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