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Cree syllabics uses different glyphs to indicate consonants, and changes the orientation of these glyphs to indicate the vowel that follows it. The basic principles of Canadian syllabic writing are outlined in the article for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. These are the astrological glyphs as most commonly used in Western Astrology A glyph is a specific symbol representing a semantic or phonetic unit of definitive value in a writing system. ... Canadian aboriginal syllabic writing (often syllabics for short) is a family of writing schemes which are used to write a number of aboriginal Canadian languages from the Algonquian, Athabaskan and Inuit language families. ...

Eastern syllabics use only those characters needed to write the phonemes of the eastern dialects. In this article, Cree words and sounds will transcribed using the Standard Roman Orthography.

Eastern Finals

The differentiating factor between eastern and western Cree orthographies is the shape of the glyphs indicating finals (consonant sounds with no following vowel). Eastern Cree dialects write finals with a superscripted a-syllabic:
ᒫᔅᑰᒡ /māskōc/ maybe has two finals, ᔅ /s/ and ᒡ /c/. These finals derive graphically from the syllabic characters ᓴ /sa/ and ᒐ /ca/.

• There is in Moose Cree an /sk/ final which merges into one character ᔅ /s/ and ᒃ /k/. ᐊᒥᔉ /amisk/ beaver
• The Moose Cree /y/ final can be written with a ring above the previous syllabic instead of the raised /ya/. ᐋᔕ̊ or ᐋᔕᔾ /āšay/ now.
• East Cree has special finals for ᒄ /kw/ and ᒽ /mw/ which are raised versions of the o-syllabics. ᒥᔅᑎᒄ /mistikw/ tree.

W-dot placement

In syllables where a /w/ occurs between a consonant and a vowel, a mid-line w-dot is written on one side of the syllabic character. The eastern Cree practice (all of Ontario and Quebec) places the dot before the syllabic character; western Cree dialects place the dot after.

Eastern ᑖᐺ — Western ᑖᐻ /tāpwē/.