| LC control no. | n 85062418 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Evans, James, 1801-1846 |
| Variant(s) | Moo-ge-gee-seg, 1801-1846 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Birth date | 18010118 |
| Death date | 18461123 |
| Place of birth | Hull (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Methodist missionary Linguist |
| Found in | Maclean J. James Evans, inventor of the syllabic system of the Cree language, 1890 NLC, 1-29-86 (AACR 2: Evans, James, 1801-1846) Nu-gu-mo-nu O-je-boa, 1837: t.p. (Moo-ge-gee-seg) p. 7 (James Evans) Wikipedia, via WWW, viewed September 25, 2014 (James Evans (linguist); James Evans (January 18, 1801--November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of the "syllabic" writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut; born in Kingston-upon-Hull in England, but emigrated with his parents to Lower Canada in 1820; in 1833 he was ordained as a Wesleyan (Methodist)minister, and in 1840 he was given authority over the local district in Norway House in Manitoba) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans_%28linguist%29> |
| Associated language | eng cre oji |
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