Uppercasing letters in Canadian aboriginal languages

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2008 - 13:44:19 CDT

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    The document L2/05-194 as found on
    http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05194r-n2962r-glottal.pdf
    shows an uppercase sample of the Thompson (Nłeʔkepmxcin) language to
    demonstrate the caseless use of the letter U+0294 (encircled in the
    sample but not subject here), attached here as example1.png .

    Looking more in detail, it appears that there letters which are no
    basic Latin letters are not uppercased at all, especially:
    U+02B7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W
      (for which exists no formal uppercase, but U+1D42 MODIFIER LETTER
       CAPITAL W could act as uppercase, and in fact from the appearance
       only it is not clearly distinguishable).
    U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
      (for which does not exist an uppercase equivalent in Unicode anyhow)
    U+0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA or (not determinable by appearance)
    U+01DD LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED E
      (for which uppercase equivalents exist for any of the both possible
       interpretations).

    Is this (i.e. not uppercasing letters beside the basic Latin ones
    in an otherwise uppercased text) a common or widespread practice in
    Canadian aboriginal languages?

    - Karl Pentzlin


    example1.png

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