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The Cree system of writing is known as "Cree Syllabics". The system, created by a missionary named James Evans in 1840, utilizes only nine shapes - each standing for a syllable, while the orientation of the shapes determined the vowel sounds. The Cree Syllabics system was very successful as it could be learned in just a few hours, and was so aesthetically different than the script used by the languages of the colonizing Europeans.

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