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The Miao Unicode project
[Philip Reimer]
Miao Unicode is an open source, Graphite-enabled font for the Miao (Pollard) script used by several language communities in southern China. Miao Unicode link. The Miao script was developed Samuel Pollard (d. 1915) and others for the A-Hmao language of Southern China (Yunnan province). Pollard took inspiration from the script now called Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, invented by James Evans in the 1830s. Miao is sometimes called the Pollard script. The script's form fluctuated for the first few decades, and became more standardized in 1936. Reforms were proposed in the 1950s which were not widely adopted. A further reform was proposed in 1988 which received greater, if still partial, adoption. The Unicode Standard officially encoded Miao in version 6.1.0, January 2012. The Miao Unicode block includes a number of archaic and 1950s-reform variants in addition to the modern character forms. Several languages are written in the Miao script---according to Daniels (1994), about a dozen (many of which are also written in one or more other scripts). Examples include: the A-Hmao language of about 300,000 speakers, also known as Large Flowery Miao as a translation of the Chinese name da hua miao; the Lipo language of about 250,000 people (or Eastern/Central Lisu); and some language groups of the Yi nationality (ca. 500,000?). It is not known for certain how many speakers of these languages use the Miao script actively. One suggestion pegs it between 200,000 and 500,000 people. The free fonts Miao Unicode (2013, Philip Reimer) can be found here. Adobe Source Sans Pro provided the Latin base fpr the font. |
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