Friday, December 18, 2020

[lfzywbqh] Yi syllables

The Yi Syllables Unicode block contains 1165 interesting-looking characters.  (Previously, surveying other Unicode blocks: Georgian, Korean, Japanese kana, Greek.)  From this set of 1165, we remove the 345 characters that have an inverted breve on top because they look boringly similar to their corresponding character without an inverted breve.  This leaves 820 especially interesting-looking characters, which we give below.  Those syllables with inverted breve all had names which end with X, and vice versa.  Curiously, most of those syllables have a corresponding syllable without the inverted breve whose name simply removes the X, but there are 3 exceptions: nzox nzop, vex vep, and hnox hnop.

Does the design of the Yi syllabary have any order or structure?  Other than inverted breve, I cannot see any commonalities within rows or columns of the Yi phonetic syllable chart.  It would not be strange if there isn't any structure: there are no commonalities among rows or columns of the Japanese syllabaries, either; their characters are simplifications of kanji which have the right sound: man'yogana.

Are there syllables which are rotations of each other?  Mirror images?  If not, that's better than Latin, which beguiles dyslexics.

It's surprising pop culture hasn't discovered and ogled over U+A31B ꌛ YI SYLLABLE SEX: .  Consider using that instead of the eggplant emoji to proposition someone.  Or, 41755 could be a number with a meaning, possibly to be censored.

YI SYLLABLE WU U+A015 ꀕ is semantically interesting, because it is not actually a syllable but a syllable iteration mark, much like katakana.  It's official Unicode name and its placement mixed with all the syllables were mistakes.  It is not visually distinctive: there are other actual syllables which use the components in wu.

YI CHARACTER TU U+A132 ꄲ looks like Hindu-Arabic zero.

These fonts can (probably) display Yi:

  • Noto Sans Yi (in the fonts-noto-core package)
  • unifont
  • fonts-wqy-zenhein
  • fonts-sil-nuosusil

The 820 characters without inverted breve are as follows, first as decimal code points, then printed in large type because they look interesting.

40960 40962 40963 40964 40966 40967 40968 40970 40971 40973 40974 40975 40977 40978 40980 40981 40982 40984 40985 40986 40988 40989 40990 40992 40993 40995 40996 40997 40999 41000 41002 41003 41004 41006 41007 41009 41010 41012 41013 41015 41016 41018 41019 41021 41022 41023 41025 41026 41028 41029 41030 41032 41033 41034 41036 41037 41039 41040 41042 41043 41045 41046 41048 41049 41050 41052 41053 41054 41056 41057 41059 41060 41061 41063 41064 41066 41067 41068 41070 41071 41073 41074 41076 41077 41078 41080 41081 41083 41084 41085 41087 41088 41089 41091 41092 41093 41095 41096 41098 41099 41101 41102 41104 41105 41107 41108 41110 41111 41112 41114 41115 41117 41118 41119 41121 41122 41123 41125 41126 41128 41130 41131 41133 41134 41136 41137 41139 41140 41141 41143 41144 41145 41147 41148 41149 41151 41152 41154 41155 41157 41158 41160 41161 41163 41164 41165 41167 41168 41169 41171 41172 41174 41175 41176 41178 41179 41181 41182 41184 41185 41186 41188 41189 41190 41192 41193 41194 41196 41197 41198 41200 41201 41203 41204 41206 41207 41209 41210 41212 41213 41215 41216 41218 41219 41221 41222 41223 41225 41226 41228 41229 41231 41232 41234 41235 41236 41238 41239 41241 41242 41244 41245 41247 41248 41249 41251 41252 41253 41255 41256 41257 41259 41260 41262 41263 41264 41266 41267 41269 41270 41272 41273 41275 41276 41277 41279 41280 41282 41283 41284 41286 41287 41289 41290 41291 41293 41294 41296 41297 41299 41300 41302 41303 41305 41306 41307 41309 41310 41312 41313 41314 41316 41317 41319 41320 41322 41323 41324 41326 41327 41328 41330 41331 41333 41334 41336 41338 41339 41340 41341 41343 41344 41346 41347 41349 41350 41352 41353 41354 41356 41357 41359 41360 41361 41363 41364 41366 41367 41369 41370 41372 41373 41374 41376 41377 41379 41380 41382 41383 41385 41386 41387 41389 41390 41392 41393 41395 41396 41398 41399 41401 41402 41403 41405 41406 41407 41409 41410 41411 41413 41414 41415 41417 41418 41420 41421 41422 41424 41425 41427 41428 41430 41431 41433 41434 41436 41437 41438 41440 41441 41442 41444 41445 41446 41448 41449 41450 41452 41453 41454 41456 41457 41458 41460 41461 41463 41464 41466 41467 41469 41470 41471 41473 41474 41476 41477 41478 41480 41481 41482 41484 41485 41486 41488 41489 41491 41492 41494 41496 41497 41498 41500 41501 41502 41504 41505 41506 41508 41509 41510 41512 41513 41514 41516 41517 41519 41521 41522 41524 41525 41527 41528 41529 41531 41532 41534 41535 41536 41538 41539 41541 41542 41544 41545 41546 41548 41549 41550 41552 41553 41554 41556 41557 41558 41560 41561 41563 41564 41566 41567 41568 41570 41571 41572 41574 41575 41577 41578 41580 41581 41582 41584 41585 41587 41588 41589 41591 41592 41593 41595 41596 41598 41599 41600 41602 41603 41605 41606 41608 41609 41611 41612 41613 41615 41616 41618 41619 41620 41622 41623 41625 41626 41627 41629 41630 41632 41633 41634 41636 41637 41639 41640 41642 41643 41645 41646 41648 41649 41650 41652 41653 41654 41656 41657 41659 41660 41661 41663 41664 41666 41667 41668 41670 41671 41673 41674 41676 41677 41679 41680 41682 41683 41684 41686 41687 41688 41690 41691 41693 41694 41696 41697 41699 41700 41702 41703 41705 41706 41708 41709 41711 41712 41714 41715 41716 41718 41719 41721 41723 41725 41727 41728 41730 41731 41733 41734 41736 41737 41739 41740 41742 41743 41744 41746 41747 41749 41750 41751 41753 41754 41756 41757 41758 41760 41761 41763 41764 41766 41767 41769 41770 41772 41773 41775 41776 41777 41779 41780 41781 41783 41784 41786 41787 41788 41790 41791 41792 41794 41795 41797 41798 41800 41801 41803 41804 41805 41807 41808 41809 41811 41812 41813 41815 41816 41818 41819 41821 41822 41824 41825 41827 41828 41829 41831 41832 41833 41835 41836 41837 41839 41840 41842 41843 41845 41846 41848 41849 41851 41853 41855 41856 41858 41859 41860 41862 41863 41864 41866 41867 41869 41870 41872 41873 41875 41876 41878 41879 41881 41882 41883 41885 41886 41887 41889 41890 41892 41893 41895 41896 41898 41899 41901 41902 41904 41905 41906 41908 41909 41910 41912 41913 41914 41916 41917 41919 41920 41922 41923 41925 41926 41928 41929 41931 41932 41933 41935 41936 41938 41939 41940 41942 41943 41945 41946 41948 41949 41951 41952 41954 41955 41956 41958 41959 41960 41962 41963 41964 41966 41967 41968 41970 41971 41973 41974 41976 41977 41979 41980 41982 41983 41984 41986 41987 41988 41990 41991 41992 41994 41995 41996 41998 41999 42001 42002 42004 42005 42007 42008 42010 42011 42012 42014 42015 42017 42018 42019 42021 42022 42023 42025 42026 42028 42029 42031 42032 42033 42035 42036 42037 42039 42040 42042 42043 42045 42046 42048 42049 42051 42052 42054 42055 42057 42058 42060 42061 42062 42064 42065 42067 42068 42069 42071 42072 42073 42075 42076 42077 42079 42080 42081 42083 42084 42086 42087 42089 42090 42091 42093 42094 42096 42097 42099 42100 42101 42103 42104 42105 42107 42108 42109 42111 42112 42113 42115 42116 42118 42119 42121 42122 42124

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