--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> What's in the Canadian standard CAN/CSA 2243.4.1? The Unicode
> Collation Algorithm (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10)
> Version 4.0 does mention it.

Okay, I am reading these two links carefully.

>
> The
> > Thinking of that, considering that Qalam seems to have a couple

of

> members
> > with a good working knowledge of Canadian Syllabics and

languages

> which use
> > it, such a collation specification could be a nice contribution
> from the
> > Qalamites to the world...
>
> And the current collation codes can be found at
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCA/latest/allkeys.txt . There's
> nothing sophisticated there for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics,

unless

> you count putting QAI and NGai in the right place. However, do

the

> majority of their user communities regard length and labialisation

as

> secondary features?

#1426 and vowel length are definitely secondary. The authors of the
Eastern Cree dictionary agreed to remove preaspiration from all
print text except the dictionary in 1991!

>There may be even more issues with the vowelless
> consonants (typically syllable final).

Eastern and western finals are font differences! IMO

>Another issue is that there
> appear to be fricativisation and affricatisation diacritics.

Don't know what this is - possibly not Cree.

Suzanne