Ethiopic Extended-A

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See also: Ethiopic (Unicode block), Ethiopic Supplement (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended (Unicode block), and Ethiopic Extended-B
Short description: Unicode character block
Ethiopic Extended-A
RangeU+AB00..U+AB2F
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsEthiopic
Major alphabetsGamo-Gofa-Dawro
Basketo
Gumuz
Assigned32 code points
Unused16 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.032 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Ethiopic Extended-A is a Unicode block containing Geʽez characters for the Gamo-Gofa-Dawro, Basketo, and Gumuz languages of Ethiopia.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ethiopic Extended-A block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.0 U+AB01..AB06, AB09..AB0E, AB11..AB16, AB20..AB26, AB28..AB2E 32 L2/09-050R N3572 Priest, Lorna (2009-02-05), Proposal to Encode Additional Ethiopic Characters 
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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