It is recorded that it was often used to write messages on trees, and Morice published a newspaper in syllabics which was in print from 1891 to 1894.

In liturgical publications, such as prayer books, the Carrier language became written in a non-standard form of the Latin alphabet, which used many English sound values, such as ⟨oo⟩ for /u/ and ⟨u⟩ for /ʌ/.

Carrier syllabics is designed so that syllables which begin with the same consonant have the same basic form.

The glottal stop is also written using a separate character, even when it immediately precedes a tautosyllabic vowel.

ᶣ is used followed by a bare-vowel character to write /f/ and /v/ in some Latin hymns included in the prayer book but is never used elsewhere.