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See also: Old North Arabian (Unicode block)
Old South Arabian
RangeU+10A60..U+10A7F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsOld South Arabian
Major alphabetsMinean
Sabaean
Qatabanian
Hadramite
Himyaritic
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)32 (+32)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.

U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.[3]

Old South Arabian[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+10A6x 𐩠 𐩡 𐩢 𐩣 𐩤 𐩥 𐩦 𐩧 𐩨 𐩩 𐩪 𐩫 𐩬 𐩭 𐩮 𐩯
U+10A7x 𐩰 𐩱 𐩲 𐩳 𐩴 𐩵 𐩶 𐩷 𐩸 𐩹 𐩺 𐩻 𐩼 𐩽 𐩾 𐩿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old South Arabian block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+10A60..10A7F 32 L2/98-036 N1689 Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-224 N2097, N2025-2 Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
N2133 Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-240 N3309 Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script
L2/07-287 N3296 Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/08-044 N3395 Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Old South Arabian", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-348 N3517 Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C19", UTC #115 Minutes, Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly.
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.05", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/08-361 Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C18", UTC #117 Minutes
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  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. ^ Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal. "N3395: Proposal to encode Old South Arabian script" (PDF). Retrieved 2 August 2014.
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