Bassa Vah (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Bassa Vah | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+16AD0..U+16AFF (48 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Bassa Vah |
| Major alphabets | Bassa |
| Assigned | 36 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 | 36 (+36) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Bassa Vah is a Unicode block containing characters of the Bassa Vah alphabet which were historically used for writing the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone.[3]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bassa Vah block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+16AD0..16AED, 16AF0..16AF5 | 36 | L2/09-327 | Riley, Charles (2009-03-20), Encoding of the Bassa Vah script in the UCS | |
| L2/10-170 | N3839 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-05-08), Proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-217 | N3847 | Everson, Michael (2010-07-31), Revised proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-382R | N3941R | Everson, Michael (2010-10-06), Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-041R | N3991 | Riley, Charles (2011-02-14), Bassa Vah Comma | |||
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, "Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP." | ||||
| N4103 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
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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.
- ↑ Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-10-06). "N3941R: Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10382r-n3941r-bassavah.pdf.
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