Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode block)

Unified Canadian
Aboriginal Syllabics
Range U+1400..U+167F
(640 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Canadian Aboriginal
Major alphabets Inuktitut
Carrier
Cree
Athapascan
Assigned 640 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 630 (+630)
5.2 640 (+10)
Note: [1][2]

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a Unicode block containing syllabic characters for writing Inuktitut, Carrier, several dialects of Cree, and Canadian Athabascan languages. Additions for some Cree dialects, Ojibwe, and Dene can be found at the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block.

Block

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+140x
U+141x
U+142x
U+143x
U+144x
U+145x
U+146x
U+147x
U+148x
U+149x
U+14Ax
U+14Bx
U+14Cx
U+14Dx
U+14Ex
U+14Fx
U+150x
U+151x
U+152x
U+153x
U+154x
U+155x
U+156x
U+157x
U+158x
U+159x
U+15Ax
U+15Bx
U+15Cx
U+15Dx
U+15Ex
U+15Fx
U+160x
U+161x
U+162x
U+163x
U+164x
U+165x
U+166x
U+167x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+1401..1676630X3L2/90-151N658Inuktitut and Cree Char. Sets in 10646, 1990-09-11
UTC/1991-070Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1991-04-30), Committee Correspondence
N956Report on the Encoding for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic Languages, 1993-11-04
N978Everson, Michael (1994-03-04), Comment on document N 956, Report on the Encoding for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic Languages
N984Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: Character Set Coding Requirements, 1994-04-18
N1073Ross, Hugh McGregor (1994-09-21), Enhanced Proposal for Canadian Aboriginal Scripts
X3L2/96-063Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, 1996-05-28
N1441Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, 1996-06-10
L2/97-274N1655Vermeulen, Dirk; Everson, Michael (1997-10-08), Canadian Syllabics missing from DAM 11
L2/01-291Jancewicz, Bill (2001-08-07), Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics [proposed correction of shapes]
L2/16-164Larabie, Ray; et al. (2016-05-16), CANADIAN SYLLABICS SHA U+1515 Font Support
5.2U+1400, 1677..167F10L2/08-132RN3427REverson, Michael; Harvey, Chris (2008-05-11), Proposal to encode 39 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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