Ahom (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Ahom
RangeU+11700..U+1174F
(80 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsAhom
Major alphabetsAhom
Assigned58 code points
Unused22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
8.057 (+57)
11.058 (+1)
Note: The Ahom block was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode 14.0.[1][2]

Ahom is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Ahom alphabet, which was used to write the Ahom language spoken by the Ahom people in Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.[3]

The block size was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode version 14.0 (version 13: 1173F → version 14: 1174F), and 7 more characters were defined.[4] This is the first block to be expanded since Unicode version 1.1.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
8.0 U+11700..11719, 1171D..1172B, 11730..1173F 57 L2/10-359 N3928 Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2010-09-17), Preliminary Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/12-222 N4290 Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2012-07-02), Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/12-267 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-309R N4321R Hosken, Martin (2012-10-23), Revised Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/12-343R2 Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), UTC #133 Minutes 
N4353 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168, "Remove the assignment of GCB=SpacingMark for U+11720..U+11721 AHOM VOWEL SIGN A and AA, letting them default to GCB=Other, for Unicode version 14.0." 
11.0 U+1171A 1 L2/15-272 Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2015-10-26), Proposal to add one extra character to the Ahom Block 
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes 
14.0 U+11740..11746 7 L2/20-258 Morey, Stephen (2020-09-29), Proposal to encode additional signs for the Tai Ahom script 
L2/20-250 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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