Tenevil

Illustration depicting one of the tablets showing writing by Tenevil, with a corresponding key for some of the graphemes.
A newspaper article of Tenevil including a portrait of what he looked like in the top left corner.

Tenevil (Russian: Теневиль; c. 1892 – 1937/1944) was a Chukchi orthographic pioneer and reindeer herder. He is best known for creating the Tenevil Script, an independently formulated original script for the Chukchi language.

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