Ahom is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Ahom alphabet, which was used to write the Ahom language spoken by the Ahom people in Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.
The block size was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode version 14.0 (version 13: 1173F → version 14: 1174F), and 7 more characters were defined. This was the first block to expanded since Unicode version 1.1.
| Ahom[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1170x | 𑜀 | 𑜁 | 𑜂 | 𑜃 | 𑜄 | 𑜅 | 𑜆 | 𑜇 | 𑜈 | 𑜉 | 𑜊 | 𑜋 | 𑜌 | 𑜍 | 𑜎 | 𑜏 |
| U+1171x | 𑜐 | 𑜑 | 𑜒 | 𑜓 | 𑜔 | 𑜕 | 𑜖 | 𑜗 | 𑜘 | 𑜙 | 𑜚 | 𑜝 | 𑜞 | 𑜟 | ||
| U+1172x | 𑜠 | 𑜡 | 𑜢 | 𑜣 | 𑜤 | 𑜥 | 𑜦 | 𑜧 | 𑜨 | 𑜩 | 𑜪 | 𑜫 | ||||
| U+1173x | 𑜰 | 𑜱 | 𑜲 | 𑜳 | 𑜴 | 𑜵 | 𑜶 | 𑜷 | 𑜸 | 𑜹 | 𑜺 | 𑜻 | 𑜼 | 𑜽 | 𑜾 | 𑜿 |
| U+1174x | 𑝀 | 𑝁 | 𑝂 | 𑝃 | 𑝄 | 𑝅 | 𑝆 | |||||||||
| Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ahom block:
| Version | Final code points3 | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | U+11700..11719, 1171D..1172B, 11730..1173F | 57 | L2/10-359 | N3928 | Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2010-09-17), Preliminary Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS |
| L2/12-222 | N4290 | Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2012-07-02), Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/12-267 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "V. AHOM", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/12-309R | N4321R | Hosken, Martin (2012-10-23), Revised Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/12-343R2 | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C16", UTC #133 Minutes | ||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.09", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
| L2/21-123 | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C3", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168, Remove the assignment of GCB=SpacingMark for U+11720..U+11721 AHOM VOWEL SIGN A and AA, letting them default to GCB=Other, for Unicode version 14.0. | ||||
| 11.0 | U+1171A | 1 | L2/15-272 | Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2015-10-26), Proposal to add one extra character to the Ahom Block | |
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.13", UTC #145 Minutes | ||||
| 14.0 | U+11740..11746 | 7 | L2/20-258 | Morey, Stephen (2020-09-29), Proposal to encode additional signs for the Tai Ahom script | |
| L2/20-250 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "9. Ahom", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C17", UTC #165 Minutes | ||||
References
Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2012-10-23). "N4321R: Revised Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12309r-n4321r.pdf ↩
"BETA Unicode 14.0.0". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 17 September 2022. https://www.unicode.org/versions/beta-14.0.0.html ↩
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↩