Kaktovik Numerals (Unicode block)
| Kaktovik Numerals | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1D2C0..U+1D2DF (32 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Kaktovik numerals |
| Assigned | 20 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| Latest change | Version 15.0 |
| 15.0 (2022) | 20 (+20) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
The Kaktovik Numerals are a Unicode block for the Kaktovik numerals, a base-20 system of numerical digits created by Alaskan Iñupiaq. It was first encoded in Unicode version 15 in 2022. It contains 20 characters for representing each of the digits 0-19 in the base-20 place value numeral system of Iñupiaq and related Inuit, Yupik, and Unangan languages.
| Kaktovik Numerals[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1D2Cx | 𝋀 | 𝋁 | 𝋂 | 𝋃 | 𝋄 | 𝋅 | 𝋆 | 𝋇 | 𝋈 | 𝋉 | 𝋊 | 𝋋 | 𝋌 | 𝋍 | 𝋎 | 𝋏 |
| U+1D2Dx | 𝋐 | 𝋑 | 𝋒 | 𝋓 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
[edit]The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kaktovik Numerals block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.0 | U+1D2C0..1D2D3 | 20 | L2/20-070 | Silva, Eduardo Marín (2020-02-09), Exploratory proposal to encode the Kaktovik numerals |
| L2/20-105 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "14. Kaktovik Numerals", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals | |||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Action Item 163-A59: Allocate U+1D250..U+1D26F for Kaktovik Numbers.", UTC #163 Minutes | |||
| L2/20-262 | Silva, Eduardo Marín (2020-08-24), Request to move the tentative location of Kaktovik numerals on the roadmap | |||
| L2/20-250 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "20. Kaktovik Numerals", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals | |||
| L2/21-058R | Silva, Eduardo Marín; Miller, Kirk; Strand, Catherine (2021-04-29), Unicode request for Kaktovik numerals | |||
| L2/21-073 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), "16. Kaktovik Numerals", Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals | |||
| L2/21-066 | Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), "Consensus 167-C7", UTC #167 Minutes | |||
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- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.