Cherokee
RangeU+13A0..U+13FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCherokee
Major alphabetsCherokee
Assigned92 code points
Unused4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)85 (+85)
8.0 (2015)92 (+7)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Cherokee is a Unicode block containing the syllabic characters for writing the Cherokee language. When Cherokee was first added to Unicode in version 3.0 it was treated as a unicameral alphabet, but in version 8.0 it was redefined as a bicameral script. The Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF) contains all the uppercase letters plus six lowercase letters. The Cherokee Supplement block (U+AB70 to U+ABBF), added in version 8.0, contains the rest of the lowercase letters. For backwards compatibility, the Unicode case folding algorithm—which usually converts a string to lowercase characters—maps Cherokee characters to uppercase.[3]

Cherokee[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+13Ax Ꭰ Ꭱ Ꭲ Ꭳ Ꭴ Ꭵ Ꭶ Ꭷ Ꭸ Ꭹ Ꭺ Ꭻ Ꭼ Ꭽ Ꭾ Ꭿ
U+13Bx Ꮀ Ꮁ Ꮂ Ꮃ Ꮄ Ꮅ Ꮆ Ꮇ Ꮈ Ꮉ Ꮊ Ꮋ Ꮌ Ꮍ Ꮎ Ꮏ
U+13Cx Ꮐ Ꮑ Ꮒ Ꮓ Ꮔ Ꮕ Ꮖ Ꮗ Ꮘ Ꮙ Ꮚ Ꮛ Ꮜ Ꮝ Ꮞ Ꮟ
U+13Dx Ꮠ Ꮡ Ꮢ Ꮣ Ꮤ Ꮥ Ꮦ Ꮧ Ꮨ Ꮩ Ꮪ Ꮫ Ꮬ Ꮭ Ꮮ Ꮯ
U+13Ex Ꮰ Ꮱ Ꮲ Ꮳ Ꮴ Ꮵ Ꮶ Ꮷ Ꮸ Ꮹ Ꮺ Ꮻ Ꮼ Ꮽ Ꮾ Ꮿ
U+13Fx Ᏸ Ᏹ Ᏺ Ᏻ Ᏼ Ᏽ ᏸ ᏹ ᏺ ᏻ ᏼ ᏽ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cherokee block:

Version Final code points[a] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+13A0..13F4 85 UTC/1991-102 McGowan, Rick (1991-10-24), Cherokee block description and chart draft
UTC/1995-027 N1172 Everson, Michael (1995-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
UTC/1995-xxx "Cherokee Proposal", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #65, Minutes, 1995-06-02
UTC/1996-016 Gourd, Charles (1996-03-05), Cherokee Syllabary
UTC/1996-015 Everson, Michael (1996-03-08), Re: Cherokee Nation's ordering
UTC/1996-017 Everson, Michael (1996-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
N1362 Initial comments on encoding Cherokee into ISO/IEC 10646, 1996-04-01
X3L2/96-034 N1356 Suignard, Michel (1996-04-17), US position concerning the referenced proposal to encode the Cherokee script
N1353 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.11", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
UTC/1996-027.2 Greenfield, Steve (1996-07-01), "B. Cherokee", UTC #69 Minutes (PART 2)
N1453 Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.12", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
N1476 Paterson, Bruce (1996-12-09), Draft pDAM 12 - Cherokee
N1596 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 2807, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 12: Cherokee Script, 1997-06-17
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "6.4", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-130 Text for FDAM ballot ISO 10646 Amendment 12 - Cherokee, 1998-03-05
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Motion 138-M2", UTC #138 Minutes, Any proposal to make the Cherokee script bicameral, should make the existing Cherokee letters uppercase. The UTC deems that this choice would provide better backward compatibility with existing implementations.
8.0 U+13F5, 13F8..13FD 7 L2/13-190 N4487 Everson, Michael; Feeling, Durbin (2013-10-24), Proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
L2/13-210 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "3", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
L2/14-064R N4537R Everson, Michael (2014-02-25), Revised proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C13", UTC #139 Minutes
L2/14-187 Whistler, Ken (2014-07-31), Cherokee casing decision may break identifier syntax
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.07a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
L2/15-214 Lunde, Ken (2015-07-30), Phoreus Cherokee type specimen sheet
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "The Unicode Standard Version 13.0 – Core Specification" (PDF). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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