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List of characters used to write ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ (nêhiyawêwin).

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nêhiyawêwin syllabics

syllabics.tsv is a tab-separated file that contains every Canadian Aboriginal syllabic character used to write nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree). For each character, this file contains the following information:

# Column Description
1 cans The syllabic character. "Cans" is the ISO 15924 code for the Canadian Aborignal Syllabics script.
2 latn The syllabics equivalent in Standard Roman Orthography (SRO), with circumflexes (◌̂) for long vowels.
3 scalar.value The Unicode code point written as a decimal number (See also code.point).
4 kind Either syllable (like "ᐘ"), vowel (like "ᐋ"), or consonant (like "ᐤ").
5 has.vowel TRUE if the syllabic "contains" a vowel (aioâêîô).
6 has.long.vowel TRUE when the syllabic "contains" a long vowel (âêîô)
7 vowel The vowel that the syllabic "contains", written in SRO.
8 has.consonant TRUE if the syllable "contains" a consonant.
9 consonant The consonant that the syllabic "contains", written in SRO.
10 has.w For syllables, it's TRUE if the syllable has an intervening "w" like ᑢ ("twa") vs ᑕ ("ta").
11 in.plains.cree TRUE if used in nêhiyawêwin (Y-dialect)
12 in.woods.cree TRUE if used in nīhithawīwin (Th-dialect)
13 in.swampy.cree TRUE if used in nêhinawêwin (N-dialect)
14 qwerty.mnemonic What to type on a QWERTY "build-a-syllable" layout to get this character
15 vim.digraph Digraph defined in the nêhiyawêwin Vim plugin.
16 code.point Unicode code point, written in "U+ notation.
17 unicode.name The syllabic's canoncial name as given in the Unicode character database.

syllabics.py

syllabics.py is the Python file that generated syllabics.tsv. It can also be used to generate a list of Vim digraphs (c.f., the Vim plugin). If you want to run syllabics.py, you'll need Python 3.6.

look-alikes.tsv

look-alikes.tsv is a tab-separated file that contains characters that are easily mistaken for more appropriate Cree syllabics characters. These characters are documented here.

Column Description
lookalike The look-alike (that is, incorrect) character.
actual The correct character.
code.point [informative] Code point of the look-alike character in "U+" notation.
actual.code.point [informative] Code point of the correct character in "U+" notation.
name [informative] The canonical name of the look-alike in the Unicode character database.

Here's an example of using look-alikes.tsv in a shell script to replace look-alikes in pipeline with the appropriate character.

function fixlookalikes() {
    tr $(awk -F"\t" 'NR > 1 { from=from $1; to=to $2 } END { print from, to }' < look-alikes.tsv)
}

fixlookalikes <bad-file.txt > good-file.txt

Licenses

You can freely use syllabics.tsv look-alikes.tsv for any purpose, without attribution. syllabics.tsv and look-alikes.tsv are released under the terms of the CC0 1.0 license.

syllabics.py is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v3. Copyright © 2018 Eddie Antonio Santos.