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This block "unifies" Algonquin, Blackfoot, Carrier, Chipewyan, Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Ojibwe, Sayisi, Slavey, and many other syllabaries. It was organized based on a 1994 Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic Encoding Committee (CASEC) report: Repertoire of Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Proposed for Inclusion into ISO/IEC 10646.
As the name suggests these syllabaries are used primarily in Canada. They all originated from James Evans' 1830s syllabary for Ojibwe, which he revised in 1940 for Cree.
The fonts shown on this page cover the entire block of characters. Additional font pages are syllabary-specific:
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Aboriginal Sans
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(absans8_51.ttf from absans.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters with diacritics Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 8.51 2004 has 4,858 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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Aboriginal Serif
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(abserif4_5.ttf from abserif.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin & Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 initial release has 4,998 glyphs and 3 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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Ballymun RO
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(ballrn__.ttf, ballrb__.ttf, ballri__.ttf, and ballrbi_.ttf from ballrn66.zip) Source: Free download from Multilingual E-Data Solutions. Stats: Version 0.66 has 1,334 glyphs and 1,565 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin |
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CBSUCAS
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(cbsuOT.otf [and cbsuTT.ttf] from cbsucas.zip) Source: Free download from Jeff Klassen's webpage. Stats: Version 1.000 has 735 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin |
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Code2000
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(code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai |
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Euphemia CAS
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(Euphemia UCAS Regular version.ttf, Euphemia UCAS Bold version.ttf, and Euphemia UCAS Italic version.ttf from version Euphemia UCAS.zip) Source: Free download from Tiro Typeworks. Stats: Version 2.660 2004 has 865 glyphs and 389 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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Everson Mono Unicode
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(evermono.ttf) Source: Shareware from Everson Mono. Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese |
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Kayases
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(Kayases.ttf) Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 001.000 has 1,155 glyphs and 17,786 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics, Latin |
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OskiBlackfoot
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(oskiblackfoot5.ttf, oskiblackfootbold5.ttf, oskiblackfootitalic5.ttf, and oskiblackfootbolditalic5.ttf from oskiblackfoot.zip) Note: A Blackfoot language font - although it covers all Canadian syllabaries with the exception of those characters labeled as South-Slavey (U+1485 to U+1488). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,701 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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OskiDakelh
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(oskidakelh1.ttf, oskidakelhbold1.ttf, oskidakelhitalic1.ttf, and oskidakelhbolditalic1.ttf from oskidakelh.zip) Note: A Dakelh (Carrier Dene) language font. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 (initial release) has 948 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin |
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OskiDene fonts
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(regular, bold, italic, and bold italic) There are four OskiDene fonts:
Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics (default, zz01), Latin |
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OskiEast
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(oskie1.ttf, oskiebold1.ttf, oskieitalic1.ttf, and oskiebolditalic1.ttf from oskieast.zip) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, and Eastern Ojibway. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,700 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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OskiWest
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(oskiw1.ttf, oskiwbold1.ttf, oskiwitalic1.ttf, and oskiwbolditalic1.ttf from oskiwest.zip) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Western Ojibway. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,700 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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Rotinonhsonni Sans
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(rotinonhversion.ttf [regular], rotinonhbversion.ttf [bold], rotinonhiversion.ttf [italic], and rotinonhbiversion.ttf [bold italic] from RotinonhSans.zip) Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 8.007 2006 has 4,960 glyphs and 106 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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