Bamum Supplement
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Bamum Supplement | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+16800..U+16A3F (576 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Bamum |
| Assigned | 569 code points |
| Unused | 7 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 | 569 (+569) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Bamum Supplement is a Unicode block containing the characters of the historic stage A-F of the Bamum script, used for writing the Bamum language of western Cameroon. The modern stage G characters, which include many characters used for stage A-F orthographies, are included in the Bamum block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bamum Supplement block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+16800..16A38 | 569 | 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 | ||||
| L2/09-019 | N3564 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2009-01-27), Proposal for encoding the Old Bamum script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/09-102 | N3597 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2009-03-28), Proposal for encoding additional Bamum characters | |||
| L2/09-106 | N3523 | Everson, Michael (2009-03-28), Sources for the encoding of historical Bamum characters | |||
| L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 | |||
| L2/09-104 | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes | ||||
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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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