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*1 The standard unjoined rendering for H u+X15 breaks as a separate syllable graphically. CVS1, CVS2, CVS3, and CVS4 realize H as diacritic dots indicating a variation of the base letter. The vowels E and U are described as having alternate pronunciations with these dots. N, S, and Sh realize as Ng, Ts/Z, and Ch/Zh/J with a single dot within the curve. T, K, L, and R take dots to indicate fricative (T and K), lateralized (L), and breathy (L and R) pronunciations. *2 Consonants always join with previous co-verbal syllables (given a legal consonant cluster), except to join with immediately following vowels. CVS1 joins two syllables when the vowels would normally cause a split-syllable graphic unit (note that E u+X16 normally forms syllable graphs as a consonant). CVS4 artificially splits two syllables in an unnatural location, allowing a non-initial syllable to begin with a consonant cluster. *3 A consonant plus CVS2 causes a dual letter overlapping grapheme that functions as an independent word. The Kamloops Wawa seems to indicate that only unmarked consonants participate in initialisms. Two are currently found: S+T for Sahali Tyee (God) and Sh+K for Jesu Kri (Jesus Christ). Note that the initialism for "Jesu Kri" does not take the dotted Sh = J/Ch. *4 The nasalized vowels AN,IN,ON,UN u+X18-u+X1B normally realize as a syllable final termination on a consonant. For media-syllabic nasal vowels, CVS3 causes the nasal to realize as a kind of diacritic mark, with the surrounding consonants combining as normal, even if they do not constitute a standard consonant cluster. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The submitter indicates that he believes this script should be allocated to the range U+102E0-U+102FF. This is due to several factors. First, that this constitutes an economical use of allocation space by using two columns in an area consisting of mostly larger scripts (existing allocations are 3,2,4,3,2,3,2,4,5,3 & 3 columns). Second, that the Chinook script constitutes more an "Alphabetic and syllabic LTR script" and less a "Recently-devised script" than either Shavian, Deseret, or Osmanya, (existing allocations) and is equivalent to ButhaKukye (pre-allocated in roadmap).
The logic behind the ordering of the script is as follows. According to Father LeJeune's Chinook Rudiments, characters X00-X09 double as the numbers 1-9+0. X0A-X0D constitute the next four basic vowels given in his introduction. X0E and X0F comprise the most commonly found "compound" vowels, both in samples from the Kamloops Wawa and in an inventory of a Chinook dictionary in my posession (Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, by George Gibbs, Echo Library ISBN 1-40680-924-1). Codepoints X09-X0F constitute all the circular vowels included in the proposal for the Chinook character block. The second column begins (X10-X14) with the voiced counterparts of the first five consonants in column 1. It proceeds to finish out the consonant inventory with H X15. The two remaining simple vowels, E and U at X16 & X17 and the four nasal vowels, X18-X1B, constitute the entire repertoire of non-circular vowels. In deference to aesthetic and logical considerations in the presentation of the code block, the four control characters - the Chinook Variation Selectors - have been given final codepoints X1C-X1F.