James Kass wrote:
> Peter Constable wrote,
>
> > It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing
> > system requires a couple of characters that are not yet
> > in Unicode. These same characters are also required for
> > Yupik (Central Siberian Yupik, I think -- maybe other
> > varieties as well).
>
> For a nice illustration of the Nivkh alphabet:
> http://odur.let.rug.nl/~bergmann/russia/alphabets/nivkh.htm
Seems to me that, using composing diacritics, all letters can be encoded:
410 411 412 413 492 413+321
414 415 401 416 417 418 419 41A
41A+31B 49A 49A+31B 41B 41C 41D 4C7 41E
41F 41F+31B 420 420+30C 421 422 422+31B 423
424 425 4B2 425+335 426 427 428 429
42A 42B 42C 42D 42E 42F
(I maintained the same layout as the beautiful chart on the above web site,
and I removed the leading zero from codes to keep lines short.)
Notice that the combination 413+321 probably requires an ad-hoc glyph or a
special kerning between the base letter and the diacritic.
_ Marco
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