Miao Script Developed by Samuel Pollard Written with Cree Syllabary

This is amazing because the Miao script was developed by Samuel Pollard and was written with Cree syllabary.

Cree Syllabics

En.Wikipedia.Org. “Cree syllabics, found in two primary variants, are the versions of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Cree dialects, including the original syllabics system created for Cree and Ojibwe.”

Cree syllabics

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Cree syllabics
Cree syllabics

Now let us look at a few sources where the Miao script also uses the Cree syllabics.

Influences of Other Writing Systems on The Miao Script

Scriptsource.Org. “Pollard had also been impressed by the development of the Cree syllabary in Canada, and adopted some Cree letters for use in the Miao script.”

Samuel Pollard

Www.Shimenkan.Org. “He credited the basic Idea of the script to the Cree syllabary (discussed above) , “While working out the problem, we remembered the case of the syllabics used by a Methodist missionary among the Indians of North America, and resolved to do as he had done” (1919:174).”

Origin and Development of The Miao Script

Scriptsource.Org. “As they themselves became more proficient in the A-Hmao language, they realised it was syllabic, and, inspired by the success of the Cree syllabary created for a sociolinguistically similar community in Northern Canada, invented a new script for the purpose of teaching the A-Hmao to read.”

A-Hmao (Miao)

Handwritten Note in The Pollard Script

Scriptsource.Org. “This is a handwritten note which was found in a book of hymns, Hwa Miao Gospel Hymns, published in 1938 in Changsha, Hunan Province.”


Handwritten Note in the Pollard Script
Handwritten Note in the Pollard Script

Pollard Hymn Book

Scriptsource.Org. “This is a page from a hymn book entitled Hwa Miao Gospel Songs written in the Pollard script.”


Pollard Hymn Book
Pollard Hymn Book

Now look at the Cree syllabics and Miao script.

Cree Syllabics

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Cree syllabics
Cree syllabics

Miao Script

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Miao Script
Miao Script

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  1. In another post I was talking about this. I knew I had seen something about the Hmong script being the same or similar to the Cree & Ojibwe script. Thanks for finding this and posting it.