Official languages of South Africa

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Fri May 03 1996 - 22:14:24 EDT


With some help, I've put together a list of characters (beyond ASCII) needed
to support the 11 official languages of South Africa. All of these characters
can be constructed from existing Unicode characters.

This is provided for informational purposes only. No claim is made about the
completeness or accuracy of this data. Use at your own risk.

In the following, an asterisk (*) in first column means the name is NOT an
official Unicode name. They are names I made up.

In addition to the ASCII characters, the following are needed:

For the Venda family of languages:

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0044U+032D
* LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0064U+032D

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+004CU+032D
* LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+006CU+032D

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+004EU+032D
* LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+006EU+032D

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0054U+032D
* LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0074U+032D

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE U+004EU+0307
* LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE U+006EU+0307

For the Tsonga family of languages:

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N FOLLOWED BY APOSTROPHE U+004EU+0027
* LATIN SMALL LETTER N FOLLOWED BY APOSTROPHE U+006EU+0027

For the Northern Sotho family of languages:

* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0045U+032D
* LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX BELOW U+0065U+032D

        LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S HACEK U+0160
        LATIN SMALL LETTER S HACEK U+0161
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