Duployan Letter D S

It is a combined consonant sign whose reading depends on the adaptation.

Duployan shorthand uses consonant and vowel signs for speech sounds, usually joined into a flowing outline. D-S versus Sloan D-D is a distinction between adaptations: this sign combines D and S in the general chart, while Sloan-Duployan uses the same character for a double-D sign. These labels are not one pronunciation shared by every Duployan text.

A French shorthand gained another life in British Columbia

Émile Duployé’s French method was published in 1860, but it evolved from earlier shorthand. He learned a version of Conen de Prépéan’s French system, revised by Aimé Paris, then simplified it with his brother to make shorthand quicker to write and easier to learn and read. The system was adapted for English, German, Spanish, and Romanian too.

In interior British Columbia, priest Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted Duployan into Chinuk pipa (“Chinook writing”), for Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language, and neighboring languages such as Shuswap, Thompson, and Okanagan. By the late nineteenth century, Catholic missions used it for prayers and teaching, while Indigenous teachers and study groups spread it further. Community members also wrote letters and local news in it; the Kamloops Wawa newsletter began printing Chinuk pipa in 1891.