Blackfoot is a member of the Algonquian language family belonging to the Plains areal grouping along with Arapaho, Gros Ventre, and Cheyenne. Blackfoot is spoken in Northwestern Montana and throughout Alberta, Canada, making it geographically one of the westernmost Algonquian languages.
The Blackfoot syllabary was created by John William Tims (1857-1945), an Anglican missionary from England. He dedicated twelve years, from 1883 to 1895, to working with the Blackfoot people in what is now Alberta, Canada. Tims developed his syllabary based on James Evans’ Ojibwe syllabary and utilized it to compile a dictionary of the Blackfoot language, along with translations of several biblical texts.
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