Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.[3]
Block
| Sogdian[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+10F3x | 𐼰 | 𐼱 | 𐼲 | 𐼳 | 𐼴 | 𐼵 | 𐼶 | 𐼷 | 𐼸 | 𐼹 | 𐼺 | 𐼻 | 𐼼 | 𐼽 | 𐼾 | 𐼿 |
| U+10F4x | 𐽀 | 𐽁 | 𐽂 | 𐽃 | 𐽄 | 𐽅 | 𐽆 | 𐽇 | 𐽈 | 𐽉 | 𐽊 | 𐽋 | 𐽌 | 𐽍 | 𐽎 | 𐽏 |
| U+10F5x | 𐽐 | 𐽑 | 𐽒 | 𐽓 | 𐽔 | 𐽕 | 𐽖 | 𐽗 | 𐽘 | 𐽙 | ||||||
| U+10F6x | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sogdian block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | |
| L2/01-007 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode | ||||
| L2/02-009 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report | ||||
| L2/16-158 | Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode | ||||
| L2/16-216 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-371R2 | N4815 | Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
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Font
There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - Noto Sans Sogdian.
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1.
This page was last edited on 27 July 2023, at 05:37