Bassa Vah (Unicode block)

Bassa Vah is a Unicode block containing characters of the Bassa Vah alphabet which were historically used for writing the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone.[3]

Bassa Vah
RangeU+16AD0..U+16AFF
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsBassa Vah
Major alphabetsBassa
Assigned36 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)36 (+36)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Bassa Vah[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+16ADx 𖫐 𖫑 𖫒 𖫓 𖫔 𖫕 𖫖 𖫗 𖫘 𖫙 𖫚 𖫛 𖫜 𖫝 𖫞 𖫟
U+16AEx 𖫠 𖫡 𖫢 𖫣 𖫤 𖫥 𖫦 𖫧 𖫨 𖫩 𖫪 𖫫 𖫬 𖫭
U+16AFx 𖫰 𖫱 𖫲 𖫳 𖫴 𖫵
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bassa Vah block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+16AD0..16AED, 16AF0..16AF5 36 L2/09-327 Riley, Charles (2009-03-20), Encoding of the Bassa Vah script in the UCS
L2/10-030 N3760 Everson, Michael (2010-01-26), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-170 N3839 Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-05-08), Proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-217 N3847 Everson, Michael (2010-07-31), Revised proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-382R N3941R Everson, Michael (2010-10-06), Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C23", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
L2/11-041R N3991 Riley, Charles (2011-02-14), Bassa Vah Comma
L2/11-016 Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Bassa Vah Comma (C.17)", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C28", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP.
N4103 "T.5. Bassa Vah", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-10-06). "N3941R: Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.