Version 1.0.2, 6 September 2021

Version history:

1.0.1, 12 September 2016
1.0.2, 6 September 2021

The Cypriot Syllabary

A mainly right to left script. In the Unicode Standard, codes U+10800‥U+1083F.

Fonts containing the Cypriot Syllabary

One of the best efforts to date is George Douros’s Aegean, which also contains the necessary Aegean numbers, U+10100‥1013F. Several different script styles are present, accessible via OpenType Stylistic Sets. NB: use version 9.81 from 2018, which can be downloaded from archive.org; this is the last version of this font that can be used freely.

ISO 15924 Script Code

The ISO 15924 script code is Cprt.

Language Tag

Most texts written in the Cypriot syllabary are in the Greek language. These texts should have the language code grc (Greek language up until 1453); language code taken from the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

XML attributes

@lang: 'grc-Cprt'
@dir: 'rtl'
@align: 'right'

(for <p> elements, if the whole paragraph is made up of text written in the Cypriot syllabary)

HTML, CSS: Web Font Support

In a CSS, an @font-face declaration must be added. The following example shows the syntax as it would be used on the RIBO platform (Highwire):

@font-face { font-family: 'Aegean';
src: url('Aegean.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('Aegean.woff') format('woff');
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;}

In the same CSS, a :lang() pseudo-class must be added as well:

:lang(grc-Cprt) {
    font-family: Aegean; font-size: 100%;
}

In HTML, the attribute syntax will be (for example, in a span element):

<span dir='rtl' lang='grc-Cprt'>txet toirpyC</span>

Web Fonts

Location of web font files: G:\Projects\Unicode\Unicode_implementation\Multilingual_computing_web\Webfonts\027_Cypriot_syllabary_web_fonts\

Aegean.woff
Aegean.woff2

Web font license details and proportion in relation to Brill typeface: #027 in Web Fonts and Script Proportions on Brill Websites.

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