Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics in Unicode

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics in Unicode

The bulk of the characters, including all that are found in official documents, are encoded into the two blocks in the Unicode standard, where the script is also called 'Canadian syllabics':

  • Unified Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (U+1400–U+167F)
  • Unified Canadian Aboriginal syllabics Extension (U+18B0–U+18FF)

These characters can be rendered with any appropriate font, including the freely available fonts listed below.

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