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Kaktovik Numerals (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Kaktovik Numerals
RangeU+1D2C0..U+1D2DF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsKaktovik numerals
Unused32 reserved code points
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.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] 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), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-102 Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), 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), 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), Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-066 Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), UTC #167 Minutes 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names



  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. 
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