Duployan shorthand
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The Duployan shorthand, or Duployan stenography, is a shorthand writing system created by Father Émile Duployé in 1860 originally for writing French. Since then, it has been expanded and adapted for w
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Chinook Jargon
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Chinook Jargon is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and
Duployan shorthand
…in 1860 originally for writing French. Since then, it has been expanded and adapted for writing English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Latin, Danish, and Chinook Jargon. The Duployan stenography is classified as a geometric, alphabetic stenography and is written left-to-right in connected stenographic style. The Duployan…
Cover, Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, 13th Edition, 1891. Photographed at Log House Museum, Seattle, Washington.