RE: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

[Marco Cimarosti]

James Kass wrote:
> Peter Constable wrote,
> 
> > It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing 
> > system requires a couple of characters that are not yet 
> > in Unicode. These same characters are also required for 
> > Yupik (Central Siberian Yupik, I think -- maybe other
> > varieties as well).
> 
> For a nice illustration of the Nivkh alphabet:
> http://odur.let.rug.nl/~bergmann/russia/alphabets/nivkh.htm

Seems to me that, using composing diacritics, all letters can be encoded:

        410     411     412     413     492     413+321
414     415     401     416     417     418     419     41A
41A+31B 49A     49A+31B 41B     41C     41D     4C7     41E
41F     41F+31B 420     420+30C 421     422     422+31B 423
424     425     4B2     425+335 426     427     428     429
        42A     42B     42C     42D     42E     42F

(I maintained the same layout as the beautiful chart on the above web site,
and I removed the leading zero from codes to keep lines short.)

Notice that the combination 413+321 probably requires an ad-hoc glyph or a
special kerning between the base letter and the diacritic.

_ Marco