Social:Wancho script
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Short description: Unicameral alphabet
| Wancho 𞋒𞋀𞋉𞋃𞋕 | |
|---|---|
 The word 'Wancho' in Wancho script | |
| Type | |
| Languages | Wancho language |
| Creator | Banwang Losu |
| Created | 2001 |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Wcho, 283 |
Unicode alias | Wancho |
| U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF | |
Wancho script is an alphabet created between 2001 and 2012 by middle school teacher Banwang Losu in Longding district, Arunachal Pradesh for writing the Wancho language.[1] Letters represent consonants and vowels. Conjunct consonants are not used. Tone is indicated with diacritical marks on vowel letters.[1]
While Wancho script is taught in some schools, the Wancho language is generally written in either Devanagari script or the Latin alphabet.
Unicode
Wancho script was added to the Unicode Standard in March 2019 on version 12.0.
The Unicode block for Wancho is U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Everson, Michael (2017-10-22). "L2/17-067R2: Proposal to encode the Wancho script". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17067r2-n4787r2-wancho.pdf.
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