Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies (stages A–F) are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.
| Bamum | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+A6A0..U+A6FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Bamum |
| Major alphabets | Bamum |
| Assigned | 88 code points |
| Unused | 8 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.2 (2009) | 88 (+88) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| Bamum[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+A6Ax | ꚠ | ꚡ | ꚢ | ꚣ | ꚤ | ꚥ | ꚦ | ꚧ | ꚨ | ꚩ | ꚪ | ꚫ | ꚬ | ꚭ | ꚮ | ꚯ |
| U+A6Bx | ꚰ | ꚱ | ꚲ | ꚳ | ꚴ | ꚵ | ꚶ | ꚷ | ꚸ | ꚹ | ꚺ | ꚻ | ꚼ | ꚽ | ꚾ | ꚿ |
| U+A6Cx | ꛀ | ꛁ | ꛂ | ꛃ | ꛄ | ꛅ | ꛆ | ꛇ | ꛈ | ꛉ | ꛊ | ꛋ | ꛌ | ꛍ | ꛎ | ꛏ |
| U+A6Dx | ꛐ | ꛑ | ꛒ | ꛓ | ꛔ | ꛕ | ꛖ | ꛗ | ꛘ | ꛙ | ꛚ | ꛛ | ꛜ | ꛝ | ꛞ | ꛟ |
| U+A6Ex | ꛠ | ꛡ | ꛢ | ꛣ | ꛤ | ꛥ | ꛦ | ꛧ | ꛨ | ꛩ | ꛪ | ꛫ | ꛬ | ꛭ | ꛮ | ꛯ |
| U+A6Fx | ꛰ | ꛱ | ꛲ | ꛳ | ꛴ | ꛵ | ꛶ | ꛷ | ||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History edit
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bamum block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/06-313 | Riley, Charles (2006-09-21), Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon | |
| L2/07-023 | Riley, Charles (2007-01-19), Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS | ||||
| L2/07-015 | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Bamum (C.8)", UTC #110 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-105 | N3213 | Freytag, Asmus (2007-02-23), Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum | |||
| L2/07-024R | N3209R | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2007-03-21), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bamum script in the BMP | |||
| N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 | ||||
| L2/07-118R2 | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
| L2/07-239 | N3298 | Anderson, Deborah (2007-07-30), Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5 | |||
| L2/07-225 | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.18", UTC #112 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-350 | N3522 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2008-10-14), Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP | |||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
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References edit
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.