Re: Navajo

[Bill Poser]

I am familiar with written Navajo. The writing system is almost pure ASCII.
The only additional characters needed are combining acute accent for high
tone, combining ogonek for nasalization, and the upper- and lower-case
barred l's for the voiceless lateral fricative. The list below looks
complete assuming that  it contains every possible combination of vowel
with the two diacritics. In fact, the list contains some characters not
used for writing Navajo, e.g. z with hachek U+017E. It looks like a few
items not in the standard orthography have crept into PanLex.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Pool <p...@utilika.org> wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:21:46 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10...@btinternet.com>
> > Subject: Navajo
> >
> > I have tried to find out which characters are used for typesetting
> Navajo using Unicode.
> >
> > it appears that the Latin alphabet with some extra characters is used
> for typesetting Navajo.
>
> The PanLex database (http://panlex.org) currently contains lemmas of
> 1,357 lexemes in Navajo from 18 sources. They are NFC-normalized. The
> counts of the occurrences of characters in these lemmas are as follows. The
> U+0301 combining acute appears over vowels with ogoneks. If there are
> standards that this list seems to fail to conform to, I would be happy to
> learn of them.
>
> 00020         213
> 0002c    ,    4
> 0002d    -    1379
> 00041    A    9
> 00042    B    24
> 00043    C    4
> 00044    D    22
> 00047    G    2
> 00048    H    11
> 00049    I    1
> 0004a    J    3
> 0004b    K    14
> 0004c    L    2
> 0004d    M    7
> 0004e    N    15
> 0004f    O    1
> 00053    S    5
> 00054    T    27
> 00056    V    1
> 00057    W    3
> 00059    Y    2
> 0005a    Z    1
> 00061    a    1422
> 00062    b    288
> 00063    c    199
> 00064    d    573
> 00065    e    748
> 00066    f    4
> 00067    g    225
> 00068    h    1457
> 00069    i    1269
> 0006a    j    98
> 0006b    k    202
> 0006c    l    455
> 0006d    m    35
> 0006e    n    731
> 0006f    o    561
> 00070    p    3
> 00071    q    6
> 00072    r    5
> 00073    s    628
> 00074    t    516
> 00075    u    28
> 00077    w    46
> 00078    x    2
> 00079    y    246
> 0007a    z    299
> 000c1    Á    3
> 000e1    á    263
> 000e9    é    249
> 000ed    í    344
> 000f3    ó    103
> 00105    ą    98
> 0010d    č    2
> 00119    ę    6
> 0012f    į    71
> 00141    Ł    6
> 00142    ł    152
> 00143    Ń    1
> 00144    ń    3
> 00161    š    4
> 0017e    ž    1
> 001eb    ǫ    17
> 001f0    ǰ    3
> 002bc    ʼ    429
> 00301    ´    57
> 01ec7    ệ    1
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