Kaktovik Numerals (Unicode block)

The Kaktovik Numerals are a Unicode block for the Kaktovik numerals, a base-20 system of numerical digits created by Alaskan Iรฑupiat. 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 Iรฑupiaq and related Inuit, Yupik, and Unangan languages.

Kaktovik Numerals[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+1D2Cx ๐‹€ ๐‹ ๐‹‚ ๐‹ƒ ๐‹„ ๐‹… ๐‹† ๐‹‡ ๐‹ˆ ๐‹‰ ๐‹Š ๐‹‹ ๐‹Œ ๐‹ ๐‹Ž ๐‹
U+1D2Dx ๐‹ ๐‹‘ ๐‹’ ๐‹“
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Kaktovik Numerals
RangeU+1D2C0..U+1D2DF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
Symbol setsKaktovik numerals
Assigned20 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
Latest changeVersion 15.0
15.0 (2022)20 (+20)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDDocument
15.0U+1D2C0..1D2D320L2/20-070Silva, Eduardo Marรญn (2020-02-09), Exploratory proposal to encode the Kaktovik numerals
L2/20-105Anderson, 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
L2/20-102Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Action Item 163-A59: Allocate U+1D250..U+1D26F for Kaktovik Numbers.", UTC #163 Minutes
L2/20-262Silva, Eduardo Marรญn (2020-08-24), Request to move the tentative location of Kaktovik numerals on the roadmap
L2/20-250Anderson, 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
L2/21-058Silva, Eduardo Marรญn; Miller, Kirk; Strand, Catherine (2021-03-16), Unicode request for Kaktovik numerals
L2/21-073Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-04-23), "16. Kaktovik Numerals", Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-066Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), "Consensus 167-C7", 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.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
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