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Old Sogdian (Unicode block)
Unicode character block

Old Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters for a group of related, non-cursive Sogdian writing systems used to write historic Sogdian in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.

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Block

Old Sogdian[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+10F0x𐼀‎𐼁‎𐼂‎𐼃‎𐼄‎𐼅‎𐼆‎𐼇‎𐼈‎𐼉‎𐼊‎𐼋‎𐼌‎𐼍‎𐼎‎𐼏‎
U+10F1x𐼐‎𐼑‎𐼒‎𐼓‎𐼔‎𐼕‎𐼖‎𐼗‎𐼘‎𐼙‎𐼚‎𐼛‎𐼜‎𐼝‎𐼞‎𐼟‎
U+10F2x𐼠‎𐼡‎𐼢‎𐼣‎𐼤‎𐼥‎𐼦‎𐼧‎
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 Old Sogdian block:

VersionFinal code points2CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
11.0U+10F00..10F2740L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/15-149Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-089RPandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script
L2/16-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-312RN4814Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "13. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", UTC #153 Minutes

Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Old Sogdian - Noto Sans Old Sogdian.

References

  1. "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. 978-1-936213-19-1

  2. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names