James Evans

Short Name: James Evans
Full Name: Evans, James, 1801-1846
Birth Year: 1801
Death Year: 1846

A Methodist missionary who worked first among the Ojibwe and later among the Cree peoples, Evans devised (initially for Ojibwe) the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic script which is still widely used in writing Cree and Inuktitut. One of his early publications in Cree was the 1841 "Cree Syllabic Hymn Book".

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James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the "syllabic" writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut.
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