Cypriot Syllabary (Unicode block)

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See also: Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Cypriot Syllabary
RangeU+10800..U+1083F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCypriot
Major alphabetsCypriot Greek
Assigned55 code points
Unused9 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.055 (+55)
Note: [1][2]

Cypriot Syllabary is the Unicode block encoding the Cypriot syllabary, a writing system for Greek used in Cyprus from the 9th-3rd centuries BCE.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.0 U+10800..10805, 10808, 1080A..10835, 10837..10838, 1083C, 1083F 55 L2/97-105 N1575 Jenkins, John H. (1997-05-21), Overview of the Aegean scripts 
L2/97-108 Jenkins, John H. (1997-05-22), Proposal to add Cypriot Syllabary to ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997 
L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/01-084 Anderson, Deborah (2001-01-28), Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) 
L2/01-217 Anderson, Deborah (2001-05-20), Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) 
L2/01-184R Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting 
L2/01-370 N2378 Anderson, Deborah; Everson, Michael (2001-10-03), Final proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS 
L2/02-154 N2403 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References