Arabic Extended-A
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Arabic Extended-A | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+08A0..U+08FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic (95 char.) Common (1 char.) |
| Major alphabets | African languages Bashkir Belarusian Berber Chechen Crimean Tatar Hindko Lak Philippine languages Punjabi Rohingya Tatar Arwi |
| Assigned | 84 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.1 | 39 (+39) |
| 7.0 | 47 (+8) |
| 8.0 | 50 (+3) |
| 9.0 | 73 (+23) |
| 11.0 | 74 (+1) |
| 13.0 | 84 (+10) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.[3]
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | U+08A0, 08A2..08AC, 08E4..08EF, 08F4..08FE | 35 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| U+08F0..08F3 | 4 | L2/01-325 | Milo, Thomas (2001-08-14), Three kinds of variation in Arabic script (sukun and jazm) | ||
| L2/02-275 | Kew, Jonathan (2002-08-02), Proposal for Koranic alternate marks | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/09-419R | N3791 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2010-03-30), Proposal to encode four combining Arabic characters for Koranic use | |||
| L2/10-155 | Schmitt, Arno; Hosny, Khaled (2010-05-03), Reservations on L2/09-419 proposal | ||||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| L2/10-371 | N3920 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2010-09-30), Comments on Resolutions from Meeting 56 (and the 3rd edition) concerning Koranic characters | |||
| 7.0 | U+08A1 | 1 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-442R | N3988 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-10-29), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE | |||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| N4103 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08AD..08B1 | 5 | L2/11-138 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-04-28), Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages | ||
| L2/11-190 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in L2/11-138 | ||||
| L2/11-201 | N4065 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in "Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages" | |||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-209 | N4071, N4072 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-05-20), Revised Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages | |||
| N4103 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08B2 | 1 | L2/12-181R | N4271 | Priest, Lorna A. (2012-05-09), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE | |
| L2/12-112 | Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes | ||||
| U+08FF | 1 | L2/11-033R | N3989 | Priest, Lorna (2011-02-10), Proposal to add Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna | |
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+08B3..08B4, 08E3 | 3 | L2/08-429 | Buhari, Seyed (2008-12-04), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | |
| L2/09-143 | Buhari, Seyed (2009-04-15), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | ||||
| L2/13-165 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-132 | Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), UTC #136 Minutes | ||||
| L2/13-168 | Ganesan, Naga (2013-07-29), Comment on L2/13-130: Writing classical Tamil in Arabic script | ||||
| L2/13-130R | N4474 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-08-19), Proposal to encode three Arabic characters for Arwi | |||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/22-221 | Nasrullah, Febri Muhammad (2022-09-11), On ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW [Affects U+08B4] | ||||
| L2/22-248 | Anderson, Deborah (2022-10-31), Recommendations to UTC #173 October 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-241 | Constable, Peter (2022-11-09), Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 173, "Add an annotation to U+08B4" | ||||
| 9.0 | U+08B6..08BA | 5 | L2/13-178 | Banafunzi, Hamid; Banafunzi, Marghani; Nuur, Maxamed (2013-08-31), Proposal to encode five Arabic script characters for the Bravanese (Chimiini) | |
| L2/13-210 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-223R | N4498 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-11-06), Proposal to encode four Arabic characters for Bravanese | |||
| L2/13-200 | Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), UTC #137 Minutes | ||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/14-293R | Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2014-11-01), Proposal to Encode Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above for Bravanese | ||||
| L2/14-250 | Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), UTC #141 Minutes | ||||
| U+08BB..08BD | 3 | L2/14-104 | Evans, Lorna (2014-04-29), Supporting the Warsh orthography for Arabic script | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-207R | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-08-09), Implications of the Unicode Arabic model for the Warsh orthography | ||||
| L2/14-211 | N4597 | Evans, Lorna (2014-08-15), Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters | |||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D4 | 1 | L2/14-148 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-06-26), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| N4592 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-08-11), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rub used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D5..08E2 | 14 | L2/14-095 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-04-24), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-100 | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), UTC #139 Minutes | ||||
| L2/14-105R | N4589 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-07-27), Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks | |||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes, "Change the name of U+08E2 to ARABIC DISPUTED END OF AYAH" | ||||
| N4739 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+08D3 | 1 | L2/16-044 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-11-29), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya with Commentary | |
| L2/15-329 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-12-02), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-056 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2016-02-16), Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-100 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-04-27), Comments on L2/16-056 Proposal to encode AlDani Quranic Marks | ||||
| L2/16-102 | Anderson, Deborah (2016-05-01), Consolidated Comments by Mansour, Evans, and Abudena on Al-Dani Quranic Marks (L2/16-056) | ||||
| L2/16-153 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-05-04), Types of Quran scripts | ||||
| L2/16-156 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-268 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2016-09-26), Suggestions on some Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition | ||||
| 13.0 | U+08BE..08C2 | 5 | L2/18-032 | N4961 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2018-01-17), Proposal to include Hindko alphabets |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-174 | N4962 | Anderson, Deborah; Pournader, Roozbeh (2018-05-02), Hindko additions for Arabic | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C3..08C4 | 2 | L2/18-094 | N4959 | Evans, Lorna; Warren-Rothlin, Andy (2018-04-26), Proposal to encode additional Arabic script characters for Hausa | |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C5..08C6 | 2 | L2/19-118R | N5049 | Patel, Neil; Riley, Charles; MacLean, Jesus (2019-03-25), Proposal to add Arabic letter JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE and JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW | |
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| N5122 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31 | ||||
| U+08C7 | 1 | L2/19-111R | Evans, Lorna; Malik, M. G. Abbas (2019-05-01), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE in the UCS | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| 14.0 | U+08B5 | 1 | L2/19-313 | van Putten, Marijn; Pournader, Roozbeh (2019-09-29), Proposal to encode an Arabic qaf with dot below | |
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C8 | 1 | L2/19-077 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-03-03), Proposal to include Balti alphabet | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-252 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-05-28), Proposal to include Balti alphabet ARABIC LETTER GRAF | ||||
| L2/19-286 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-270 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), UTC #160 Minutes | ||||
| L2/21-066 | Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), UTC #167 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C9..08D2 | 10 | L2/19-306 | N5142 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2019-09-29), Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies | |
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| L2/20-105 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), UTC #163 Minutes, "The UTC changes the name for U+08D2 from ARABIC ROUND DOT INSIDE LARGE CIRCLE BELOW to ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT INSIDE CIRCLE BELOW" | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN:978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
External links
- Scheherazade, an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
- Harmattan, an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International for West Africa, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
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