A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says.
Vanessa Campbell, a Musqueam band member and staff member in its language and culture department, was part of a team from the University of British Columbia (UBC) that designed a new font that allows characters from the Musqueam language to not only be easily typed on a computer, but to match the formal institutional font used on university documentation and signs.
Most of the characters in the Musqueam language’s name — hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num — aren’t available on an English language keyboard.
Campbell said it has taken four years of work
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