Old Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters for a group of related, non-cursive Sogdian writing systems used to write historic Sogdian in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.[3]
| Old Sogdian | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+10F00..U+10F2F (48 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Old Sogdian |
| Assigned | 40 code points |
| Unused | 8 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 11.0 (2018) | 40 (+40) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block edit
| Old 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+10F0x | 𐼀 | 𐼁 | 𐼂 | 𐼃 | 𐼄 | 𐼅 | 𐼆 | 𐼇 | 𐼈 | 𐼉 | 𐼊 | 𐼋 | 𐼌 | 𐼍 | 𐼎 | 𐼏 |
| U+10F1x | 𐼐 | 𐼑 | 𐼒 | 𐼓 | 𐼔 | 𐼕 | 𐼖 | 𐼗 | 𐼘 | 𐼙 | 𐼚 | 𐼛 | 𐼜 | 𐼝 | 𐼞 | 𐼟 |
| U+10F2x | 𐼠 | 𐼡 | 𐼢 | 𐼣 | 𐼤 | 𐼥 | 𐼦 | 𐼧 | ||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History edit
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old Sogdian block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+10F00..10F27 | 40 | 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 | ||||
| L2/15-149 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-089R | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script | ||||
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-312R | N4814 | Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script | |||
| 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), "13. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
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Font edit
There is a Unicode font encoding Old Sogdian - Noto Sans Old Sogdian.
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.
- ^ "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.