U+1488 "ᒈ" Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Kah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1488 "ᒈ" Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Kah is a glyph used in the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system, specifically representing a syllable in the South Slavey language, which is an Athabaskan language spoken in parts of Canada's Northwest Territories and Alberta. This character denotes the sound "kah" and forms part of a script developed in the 19th century by missionaries to transcribe Indigenous languages, with this particular variant tailored to the phonetic needs of the South Slavey dialect. As a Unicode-encoded symbol, U+1488 ensures digital preservation and interoperability for texts in languages that rely on this syllabic system, supporting cultural and linguistic documentation in modern technology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1488 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Canadian Syllabics South-Slavey Kah |
| Block | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᒈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᒈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x92 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1488 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001488 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1488 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Canadian Aboriginal |
| Script Extensions | Canadian Aboriginal |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |