Bamum (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Bamum | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+A6A0..U+A6FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Bamum |
| Major alphabets | Bamum |
| Assigned | 88 code points |
| Unused | 8 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.2 | 88 (+88) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies (stages A–F) are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bamum block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/06-313 | Riley, Charles (2006-09-21), Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon | |
| L2/07-023 | Riley, Charles (2007-01-19), Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS | ||||
| L2/07-015 | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-105 | N3213 | Freytag, Asmus (2007-02-23), Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum | |||
| N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 | ||||
| L2/07-118R2 | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
| L2/07-239 | N3298 | Anderson, Deborah (2007-07-30), Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5 | |||
| L2/07-225 | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
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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.
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