Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode block)

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See also: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended (Unicode block) and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A
Short description: Unicode character block
Unified Canadian
Aboriginal Syllabics
RangeU+1400..U+167F
(640 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCanadian Aboriginal
Major alphabetsInuktitut
Carrier
Cree
Athapascan
Assigned640 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0630 (+630)
5.2640 (+10)
Note: [1][2]

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a Unicode block containing syllabic characters for writing Inuktitut, Carrier, Cree (along with several of its dialect-specific characters), Ojibwe, Blackfoot and Canadian Athabascan languages. Additions for some Cree dialects, Ojibwe, and Dene can be found at the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+1401..166E 622 X3L2/90-151 N658 Inuktitut and Cree Char. Sets in 10646, 1990-09-11 
UTC/1991-070 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1991-04-30), Committee Correspondence 
N956 Report on the Encoding for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic Languages, 1993-11-04 
N984 Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: Character Set Coding Requirements, 1994-04-18 
UTC/1994-032 Aliprand, Joan; Greenfield, Steve (1994-09-30), Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #62, Friday, September 30, 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Minutes 
N1104 Everson, Michael (1994-10-11), Proposed Unified Canadian Syllabic Character Set Repertoire, version 2.0 (Comment on WG2 N984) 
X3L2/96-063 Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, 1996-05-28 
N1441 Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, 1996-06-10 
UTC/1996-027.2 Greenfield, Steve (1996-07-01), UTC #69 Minutes (PART 2) 
N1472 Paterson, Bruce (1996-11-20), pDAM 11 - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 
N1453 Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 
L2/97-005 Paterson, Bruce (1997-01-28), ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 11: Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Script 
N1595 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 2806, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 11: Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Script, 1997-06-17 
L2/97-223 N1644 Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1997-09-11), Revised Text of ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 11 - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 
L2/97-224 Paterson, Bruce (1997-09-11), Disposition of Comments Report for ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 11 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 
L2/98-128 Text for FDAM ballot ISO 10646 Amendment 11 - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, 1998-03-05 
L2/01-291 Jancewicz, Bill (2001-08-07), Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics [proposed correction of shapes] 
L2/18-274 McGowan, Rick (2018-09-14), Comments on Public Review Issues (July 24 - Sept 14, 2018) 
L2/18-272 Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), UTC #157 Minutes, "Change the general category of U+166D CANADIAN SYLLABICS CHI SIGN fron "Po" to "So" and make it Terminal_Punctuation=No." 
L2/21-088 King, Kevin (2021-04-06), Proposed revisions to the representative characters of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics code charts 
L2/21-073 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-066 Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), UTC #167 Minutes, "The UTC notes document L2/21-088, but takes no further action." 
L2/21-141 King, Kevin (2021-07-07), Proposed changes to the representative glyphs of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics code charts [Affects U+144B, 14D1, 1506, 15C0-15C3, 15E8-15EE, 1601, 1604-1607, 160A-160D, 1614-162D, 1630-163F, 1646-1647, 165A] 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168, "Accept 186 changes for glyphs in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended blocks" 
U+166F..1676 8 L2/97-274 N1655 Vermeulen, Dirk; Everson, Michael (1997-10-08), Canadian Syllabics missing from DAM 11 
L2/98-039 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 
L2/98-321 N1905 Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22 
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 
5.2 U+1400, 1677..167F 10 L2/08-132R N3427R Everson, Michael; Harvey, Chris (2008-05-11), Proposal to encode 39 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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