Their language was traditionally oral, but over the last few decades the Musqueam have begun deciding how to put it into writing.
VANCOUVER — A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words that it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says.
"As a Musqueam woman, UBC acknowledging the importance of being able to respectfully represent my language in their space, on my territory, through the branding font that they use, it's inherently created this space of mutual respect and caring for this language that I spend my whole life working on," she said.
Only a few computer fonts recognize the characters, he said, meaning anyone who wants to use the language is limited in their options or forced to switch fonts mid-sentence. The new font is also capable of typesetting the language of the Syilx, a nation located in the same area as the university's Okanagan campus.
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