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Script (Unicode)

January 01, 1970

This article is about writing systems found in Unicode. For the "Script" style of Latin letters in Unicode, see Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and Script typeface.
‎ ‎ ᓃ‎ ‎ ⠿‎
‎ ‎ አ‎ 文‎ あ‎
ꦏ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ழ்‎
‎ ع‎‎ ש‎‎ Д‎ A‎

In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems.[1] Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language, for example, Armenian. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script supports English, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Latin itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts; for example, in Turkish, the Arabic script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. More or less complementary to scripts are symbols and Unicode control characters.

The unified diacritical characters and unified punctuation characters frequently have the "common" or "inherited" script property. However, the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics, so that many scripts include not only letters but also diacritic and other marks, punctuation, numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and space characters.

Unicode 15.1 defines 161 separate scripts, including 94 modern scripts and 67 ancient or historic scripts.[2][3] More scripts are in the process for encoding or have been tentatively allocated for encoding in roadmaps.[4]

Definition and classification edit

When multiple languages make use of the same script, there are frequently some differences, particularly in diacritics and other marks. For example, Swedish and English both use the Latin script. However, Swedish includes the character å (sometimes called a Swedish O), while English has no such character. Nor does English make use of the diacritic combining ring above for any character. In general, the languages sharing the same scripts share many of the same characters. Despite these peripheral differences in the Swedish and English writing systems, they are said to use the same Latin script. Thus, the Unicode abstraction of scripts is a basic organizing technique. The differences among different alphabets or writing systems remain and are supported through Unicode’s flexible scripts, combining marks and collation algorithms.

Script versus writing system edit

Writing system is sometimes treated as a synonym for "script". However, it also can be used as the specific concrete writing system supported by a script. For example, the Vietnamese writing system is supported by the Latin script. A writing system may also cover more than one script; for example, the Japanese writing system makes use of the Han, Hiragana and Katakana scripts.

Most writing systems can be broadly divided into several categories: logographic, syllabic, alphabetic (or segmental), abugida, abjad and featural; however, all features of any of these may be found in any given writing system in varying proportions, often making it difficult to purely categorize a system. The term complex system is sometimes used to describe those where the admixture makes classification problematic.

Unicode supports all of these types of writing systems through its numerous scripts. Unicode also adds further properties to characters to help differentiate the various characters and the ways they behave within Unicode text-processing algorithms.

Special script property values edit

In addition to explicit or specific script properties, Unicode uses three special values:[5]

Common
Unicode can assign a character in the UCS to a single script only. However, many characters—those that are not part of a formal natural-language writing system or are unified across many writing systems—may be used in more than one script (for example, currency signs, symbols, numerals and punctuation marks). In these cases Unicode defines them as belonging to the "common" script (ISO 15924 code "Zyyy").
Inherited
Many diacritics and non-spacing combining characters may be applied to characters from more than one script. In these cases Unicode assigns them to the "inherited" script (ISO 15924 code Zinh), which means that they have the same script class as the base character with which they combine, and so in different contexts they may be treated as belonging to different scripts. For example, U+0308  ̈  COMBINING DIAERESIS may combine either with U+0065 e LATIN SMALL LETTER E to create a Latin ë or with U+0435 е CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE for the Cyrillic ё. In the former case, it inherits the Latin script of the base character, whereas in the latter case, it inherits the Cyrillic script of the base character.
Unknown
The value of "unknown" script (ISO 15924 code Zzzz) is given to unassigned, private-use, noncharacter, and surrogate code points.

Character categories within scripts edit

Unicode provides a general category property for each character. So in addition to belonging to a script every character also has a general category. Typically scripts include letter characters including: uppercase letters, lowercase letter and modifier letters. Some characters are considered titlecase letters for a few precomposed ligatures such as Dz (U+01F2). Such titlecase ligatures are all in the Latin and Greek scripts and are all compatibility characters, and therefore Unicode discourages their use by authors. It is unlikely that new titlecase letters will be added in the future.

Most writing systems do not differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters. For those scripts all letters are categorized as "other letter" or "modifier letter". Ideographs such as Unihan ideographs are also categorized as "other letters". A few scripts do differentiate between uppercase and lowercase however: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, and Deseret. Even for these scripts there are some letters that are neither uppercase nor lowercase.

Scripts can also contain any other general category character such as marks (diacritic and otherwise), numbers (numerals), punctuation, separators (word separators such as spaces), symbols and non-graphical format characters. These are included in a particular script when they are unique to that script. Other such characters are generally unified and included in the punctuation or diacritic blocks. However, the bulk of characters in any script (other than the common and inherited scripts) are letters.

List of scripts in Unicode edit

Unicode defines over a hundred script names (called "Alias" or "Property value alias"), based on the ISO 15924 list. Unicode uses the "Common" script name for ISO 15924's Zyyy (code for undetermined script), "Inherited" for ISO 15924's Zinh (code for inherited script), and "Unknown" for ISO 15924's Zzzz (code for uncoded script). Not used are, among others, the ISO 15924 script codes: Zsym (Symbols) and Zmth (Mathematical notation). These are considered not to be scripts in Unicode sense.

Scripts in ISO 15924[a][b] and in Unicode[c][d]
ISO 15924 Script in Unicode[e]
Code ISO number ISO formal name Directionality Unicode Alias[f] Version Characters Notes Description
Adlm 166 Adlam right-to-left script   Adlam 9.0 88 Ch 19.9
Afak 439 Afaka varies ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Aghb 239 Caucasian Albanian left-to-right   Caucasian Albanian 7.0 53 Ancient/historic Ch 8.11
Ahom 338 Ahom, Tai Ahom left-to-right   Ahom 8.0 65 Ancient/historic Ch 15.16
Arab 160 Arabic right-to-left script   Arabic 1.0 1,368 Ch 9.2
Aran 161 Arabic (Nastaliq variant) mixed ZZ— Typographic variant of Arabic (see § Arab)
Armi 124 Imperial Aramaic right-to-left script   Imperial Aramaic 5.2 31 Ancient/historic Ch 10.4
Armn 230 Armenian left-to-right   Armenian 1.0 96 Ch 7.6
Avst 134 Avestan right-to-left script   Avestan 5.2 61 Ancient/historic Ch 10.7
Bali 360 Balinese left-to-right   Balinese 5.0 124 Ch 17.3
Bamu 435 Bamum left-to-right   Bamum 5.2 657 Ch 19.6
Bass 259 Bassa Vah left-to-right   Bassa Vah 7.0 36 Ancient/historic Ch 19.7
Batk 365 Batak left-to-right   Batak 6.0 56 Ch 17.6
Beng 325 Bengali (Bangla) left-to-right   Bengali 1.0 96 Ch 12.2
Bhks 334 Bhaiksuki left-to-right   Bhaiksuki 9.0 97 Ancient/historic Ch 14.3
Blis 550 Blissymbols varies ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Bopo 285 Bopomofo left-to-right, right-to-left script   Bopomofo 1.0 77 Ch 18.3
Brah 300 Brahmi left-to-right   Brahmi 6.0 115 Ancient/historic Ch 14.1
Brai 570 Braille left-to-right   Braille 3.0 256 Ch 21.1
Bugi 367 Buginese left-to-right   Buginese 4.1 30 Ch 17.2
Buhd 372 Buhid left-to-right   Buhid 3.2 20 Ch 17.1
Cakm 349 Chakma left-to-right   Chakma 6.1 71 Ch 13.11
Cans 440 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics left-to-right   Canadian Aboriginal 3.0 726 Ch 20.2
Cari 201 Carian left-to-right, right-to-left script   Carian 5.1 49 Ancient/historic Ch 8.5
Cham 358 Cham left-to-right   Cham 5.1 83 Ch 16.10
Cher 445 Cherokee left-to-right   Cherokee 3.0 172 Ch 20.1
Chis 298 Chisoi left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is mature[ii]
Chrs 109 Chorasmian right-to-left script, top-to-bottom   Chorasmian 13.0 28 Ancient/historic Ch 10.8
Cirt 291 Cirth varies ZZ— Not in Unicode
Copt 204 Coptic left-to-right   Coptic 1.0 137 Ancient/historic, disunified from Greek in 4.1 Ch 7.3
Cpmn 402 Cypro-Minoan left-to-right Cypro Minoan 14.0 99 Ancient/historic Ch 8.4
Cprt 403 Cypriot syllabary right-to-left script   Cypriot 4.0 55 Ancient/historic Ch 8.3
Cyrl 220 Cyrillic left-to-right   Cyrillic 1.0 506 Includes typographic variant Old Church Slavonic (see § Cyrs) Ch 7.4
Cyrs 221 Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant) varies ZZ— Typographic variant of Cyrillic (see § Cyrl); Ancient/historic
Deva 315 Devanagari (Nagari) left-to-right   Devanagari 1.0 164 Ch 12.1
Diak 342 Dives Akuru left-to-right   Dives Akuru 13.0 72 Ancient/historic Ch 15.15
Dogr 328 Dogra left-to-right   Dogra 11.0 60 Ancient/historic Ch 15.18
Dsrt 250 Deseret (Mormon) left-to-right   Deseret 3.1 80 Ch 20.4
Dupl 755 Duployan shorthand, Duployan stenography left-to-right   Duployan 7.0 143 Ch 21.6
Egyd 070 Egyptian demotic mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Egyh 060 Egyptian hieratic mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Egyp 050 Egyptian hieroglyphs right-to-left script, left-to-right   Egyptian Hieroglyphs 5.2 1,110 Ancient/historic Ch 11.4
Elba 226 Elbasan left-to-right   Elbasan 7.0 40 Ancient/historic Ch 8.10
Elym 128 Elymaic right-to-left script   Elymaic 12.0 23 Ancient/historic Ch 10.9
Ethi 430 Ethiopic (Geʻez) left-to-right   Ethiopic 3.0 523 Ch 19.1
Gara 164 Garay right-to-left ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Geok 241 Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri) left-to-right   Georgian Unicode groups Khutsori, Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri into 'Georgian' (see § Geok). Similarly, Mkhedruli and Mtavruli are 'Georgian' (see § Geor) Ch 7.7
Geor 240 Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli) left-to-right   Georgian 1.0 173 In Unicode this also includes Nuskhuri (Geok) Ch 7.7
Glag 225 Glagolitic left-to-right   Glagolitic 4.1 134 Ancient/historic Ch 7.5
Gong 312 Gunjala Gondi left-to-right   Gunjala Gondi 11.0 63 Ch 13.15
Gonm 313 Masaram Gondi left-to-right   Masaram Gondi 10.0 75 Ch 13.14
Goth 206 Gothic left-to-right   Gothic 3.1 27 Ancient/historic Ch 8.9
Gran 343 Grantha left-to-right   Grantha 7.0 85 Ancient/historic Ch 15.14
Grek 200 Greek left-to-right   Greek 1.0 518 Directionality sometimes as boustrophedon Ch 7.2
Gujr 320 Gujarati left-to-right   Gujarati 1.0 91 Ch 12.4
Gukh 397 Gurung Khema left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Guru 310 Gurmukhi left-to-right   Gurmukhi 1.0 80 Ch 12.3
Hanb 503 Han with Bopomofo (alias for Han + Bopomofo) mixed ZZ— See § Hani, § Bopo
Hang 286 Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) left-to-right, vertical right-to-left   Hangul 1.0 11,739 Hangul syllables relocated in 2.0 Ch 18.6
Hani 500 Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left (historically) Han 1.0 99,030 Ch 18.1
Hano 371 Hanunoo (Hanunóo) left-to-right, bottom-to-top   Hanunoo 3.2 21 Ch 17.1
Hans 501 Han (Simplified variant) varies ZZ— Subset of Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) (see § Hani)
Hant 502 Han (Traditional variant) varies ZZ— Subset of § Hani
Hatr 127 Hatran right-to-left script   Hatran 8.0 26 Ancient/historic Ch 10.12
Hebr 125 Hebrew right-to-left script   Hebrew 1.0 134 Ch 9.1
Hira 410 Hiragana vertical right-to-left, left-to-right   Hiragana 1.0 381 Ch 18.4
Hluw 080 Anatolian Hieroglyphs (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Hittite Hieroglyphs) left-to-right   Anatolian Hieroglyphs 8.0 583 Ancient/historic Ch 11.6
Hmng 450 Pahawh Hmong left-to-right   Pahawh Hmong 7.0 127 Ch 16.11
Hmnp 451 Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong left-to-right   Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong 12.0 71 Ch 16.12
Hrkt 412 Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) vertical right-to-left, left-to-right   Katakana or Hiragana See § Hira, § Kana Ch 18.4
Hung 176 Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic) right-to-left script   Old Hungarian 8.0 108 Ancient/historic Ch 8.8
Inds 610 Indus (Harappan) mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Ital 210 Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.) right-to-left script, left-to-right   Old Italic 3.1 39 Ancient/historic Ch 8.6
Jamo 284 Jamo (alias for Jamo subset of Hangul) varies ZZ— Subset of § Hang
Java 361 Javanese left-to-right   Javanese 5.2 90 Ch 17.4
Jpan 413 Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) varies ZZ— See § Hani, § Hira and § Kana
Jurc 510 Jurchen left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Kali 357 Kayah Li left-to-right   Kayah Li 5.1 47 Ch 16.9
Kana 411 Katakana vertical right-to-left, left-to-right   Katakana 1.0 321 Ch 18.4
Kawi 368 Kawi left-to-right   Kawi 15.0 86 Ancient/historic Ch 17.9
Khar 305 Kharoshthi right-to-left script   Kharoshthi 4.1 68 Ancient/historic Ch 14.2
Khmr 355 Khmer left-to-right   Khmer 3.0 146 Ch 16.4
Khoj 322 Khojki left-to-right   Khojki 7.0 65 Ancient/historic Ch 15.7
Kitl 505 Khitan large script left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Kits 288 Khitan small script vertical right-to-left   Khitan Small Script 13.0 471 Ancient/historic Ch 18.12
Knda 345 Kannada left-to-right   Kannada 1.0 91 Ch 12.8
Kore 287 Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) left-to-right ZZ— See § Hani, § Hang
Kpel 436 Kpelle left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Krai 396 Kirat Rai left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Kthi 317 Kaithi left-to-right   Kaithi 5.2 68 Ancient/historic Ch 15.2
Lana 351 Tai Tham (Lanna) left-to-right   Tai Tham 5.2 127 Ch 16.7
Laoo 356 Lao left-to-right   Lao 1.0 83 Ch 16.2
Latf 217 Latin (Fraktur variant) varies ZZ— Typographic variant of Latin (see § Latn)
Latg 216 Latin (Gaelic variant) left-to-right ZZ— Typographic variant of Latin (see § Latn)
Latn 215 Latin left-to-right   Latin 1.0 1,481 See also: Latin script in Unicode Ch 7.1
Leke 364 Leke left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Lepc 335 Lepcha (Róng) left-to-right   Lepcha 5.1 74 Ch 13.12
Limb 336 Limbu left-to-right   Limbu 4.0 68 Ch 13.6
Lina 400 Linear A left-to-right   Linear A 7.0 341 Ancient/historic Ch 8.1
Linb 401 Linear B left-to-right   Linear B 4.0 211 Ancient/historic Ch 8.2
Lisu 399 Lisu (Fraser) left-to-right   Lisu 5.2 49 Ch 18.9
Loma 437 Loma left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Lyci 202 Lycian left-to-right   Lycian 5.1 29 Ancient/historic Ch 8.5
Lydi 116 Lydian right-to-left script   Lydian 5.1 27 Ancient/historic Ch 8.5
Mahj 314 Mahajani left-to-right   Mahajani 7.0 39 Ancient/historic Ch 15.6
Maka 366 Makasar left-to-right   Makasar 11.0 25 Ancient/historic Ch 17.8
Mand 140 Mandaic, Mandaean right-to-left script   Mandaic 6.0 29 Ch 9.5
Mani 139 Manichaean right-to-left script   Manichaean 7.0 51 Ancient/historic Ch 10.5
Marc 332 Marchen left-to-right   Marchen 9.0 68 Ancient/historic Ch 14.5
Maya 090 Mayan hieroglyphs mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Medf 265 Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ) left-to-right   Medefaidrin 11.0 91 Ch 19.10
Mend 438 Mende Kikakui right-to-left script   Mende Kikakui 7.0 213 Ch 19.8
Merc 101 Meroitic Cursive right-to-left script   Meroitic Cursive 6.1 90 Ancient/historic Ch 11.5
Mero 100 Meroitic Hieroglyphs right-to-left script   Meroitic Hieroglyphs 6.1 32 Ancient/historic Ch 11.5
Mlym 347 Malayalam left-to-right   Malayalam 1.0 118 Ch 12.9
Modi 324 Modi, Moḍī left-to-right   Modi 7.0 79 Ancient/historic Ch 15.12
Mong 145 Mongolian vertical left-to-right, left-to-right   Mongolian 3.0 168 Mong includes Clear and Manchu scripts Ch 13.5
Moon 218 Moon (Moon code, Moon script, Moon type) mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Mroo 264 Mro, Mru left-to-right   Mro 7.0 43 Ch 13.8
Mtei 337 Meitei Mayek (Meithei, Meetei) left-to-right   Meetei Mayek 5.2 79 Ch 13.7
Mult 323 Multani left-to-right   Multani 8.0 38 Ancient/historic Ch 15.10
Mymr 350 Myanmar (Burmese) left-to-right   Myanmar 3.0 223 Ch 16.3
Nagm 295 Nag Mundari left-to-right   Nag Mundari 15.0 42
Nand 311 Nandinagari left-to-right   Nandinagari 12.0 65 Ancient/historic Ch 15.13
Narb 106 Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian) right-to-left script   Old North Arabian 7.0 32 Ancient/historic Ch 10.1
Nbat 159 Nabataean right-to-left script   Nabataean 7.0 40 Ancient/historic Ch 10.10
Newa 333 Newa, Newar, Newari, Nepāla lipi left-to-right   Newa 9.0 97 Ch 13.3
Nkdb 085 Naxi Dongba (na²¹ɕi³³ to³³ba²¹, Nakhi Tomba) left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Nkgb 420 Naxi Geba (na²¹ɕi³³ gʌ²¹ba²¹, 'Na-'Khi ²Ggŏ-¹baw, Nakhi Geba) left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Nkoo 165 N’Ko right-to-left script   NKo 5.0 62 Ch 19.4
Nshu 499 Nüshu vertical right-to-left   Nushu 10.0 397 Ch 18.8
Ogam 212 Ogham bottom-to-top, left-to-right   Ogham 3.0 29 Ancient/historic Ch 8.14
Olck 261 Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet’, Ol, Santali) left-to-right   Ol Chiki 5.1 48 Ch 13.10
Onao 296 Ol Onal left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Orkh 175 Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic right-to-left script   Old Turkic 5.2 73 Ancient/historic Ch 14.8
Orya 327 Oriya (Odia) left-to-right   Oriya 1.0 91 Ch 12.5
Osge 219 Osage left-to-right   Osage 9.0 72 Ch 20.3
Osma 260 Osmanya left-to-right   Osmanya 4.0 40 Ch 19.2
Ougr 143 Old Uyghur mixed Old Uyghur 14.0 26 Ancient/historic Ch 14.11
Palm 126 Palmyrene right-to-left script   Palmyrene 7.0 32 Ancient/historic Ch 10.11
Pauc 263 Pau Cin Hau left-to-right   Pau Cin Hau 7.0 57 Ch 16.13
Pcun 015 Proto-Cuneiform left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Pelm 016 Proto-Elamite left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Perm 227 Old Permic left-to-right   Old Permic 7.0 43 Ancient/historic Ch 8.13
Phag 331 Phags-pa vertical left-to-right   Phags-pa 5.0 56 Ancient/historic Ch 14.4
Phli 131 Inscriptional Pahlavi right-to-left script   Inscriptional Pahlavi 5.2 27 Ancient/historic Ch 10.6
Phlp 132 Psalter Pahlavi right-to-left script   Psalter Pahlavi 7.0 29 Ancient/historic Ch 10.6
Phlv 133 Book Pahlavi mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Phnx 115 Phoenician right-to-left script   Phoenician 5.0 29 Ancient/historic[g] Ch 10.3
Piqd 293 Klingon (KLI pIqaD) left-to-right   ZZ— Rejected for inclusion in Unicode[iv][v]
Plrd 282 Miao (Pollard) left-to-right   Miao 6.1 149 Ch 18.10
Prti 130 Inscriptional Parthian right-to-left script   Inscriptional Parthian 5.2 30 Ancient/historic Ch 10.6
Psin 103 Proto-Sinaitic mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Qaaa-Qabx 900-949 Reserved for private use (range) ZZ— Not in Unicode
Ranj 303 Ranjana left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Rjng 363 Rejang (Redjang, Kaganga) left-to-right   Rejang 5.1 37 Ch 17.5
Rohg 167 Hanifi Rohingya right-to-left script   Hanifi Rohingya 11.0 50 Ch 16.14
Roro 620 Rongorongo mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Runr 211 Runic left-to-right, boustrophedon   Runic 3.0 86 Ancient/historic Ch 8.7
Samr 123 Samaritan right-to-left script, top-to-bottom   Samaritan 5.2 61 Ch 9.4
Sara 292 Sarati mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode
Sarb 105 Old South Arabian right-to-left script   Old South Arabian 5.2 32 Ancient/historic Ch 10.2
Saur 344 Saurashtra left-to-right   Saurashtra 5.1 82 Ch 13.13
Sgnw 095 SignWriting vertical left-to-right   SignWriting 8.0 672 Ch 21.7
Shaw 281 Shavian (Shaw) left-to-right   Shavian 4.0 48 Ch 8.15
Shrd 319 Sharada, Śāradā left-to-right   Sharada 6.1 96 Ch 15.3
Shui 530 Shuishu left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Sidd 302 Siddham, Siddhaṃ, Siddhamātṛkā left-to-right   Siddham 7.0 92 Ancient/historic Ch 15.5
Sidt 180 Sidetic right-to-left ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is mature[ii]
Sind 318 Khudawadi, Sindhi left-to-right   Khudawadi 7.0 69 Ch 15.9
Sinh 348 Sinhala left-to-right   Sinhala 3.0 111 Ch 13.2
Sogd 141 Sogdian horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts, top-to-bottom   Sogdian 11.0 42 Ancient/historic Ch 14.10
Sogo 142 Old Sogdian right-to-left script   Old Sogdian 11.0 40 Ancient/historic Ch 14.9
Sora 398 Sora Sompeng left-to-right   Sora Sompeng 6.1 35 Ch 15.17
Soyo 329 Soyombo left-to-right   Soyombo 10.0 83 Ancient/historic Ch 14.7
Sund 362 Sundanese left-to-right   Sundanese 5.1 72 Ch 17.7
Sunu 274 Sunuwar left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Sylo 316 Syloti Nagri left-to-right   Syloti Nagri 4.1 45 Ancient/historic Ch 15.1
Syrc 135 Syriac right-to-left script   Syriac 3.0 88 Includes typographic variants Estrangelo (see § Syre), Western (§ Syrj), and Eastern (§ Syrn) Ch 9.3
Syre 138 Syriac (Estrangelo variant) mixed ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (see § Syrc)
Syrj 137 Syriac (Western variant) mixed ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (see § Syrc)
Syrn 136 Syriac (Eastern variant) mixed ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (see § Syrc)
Tagb 373 Tagbanwa left-to-right   Tagbanwa 3.2 18 Ch 17.1
Takr 321 Takri, Ṭākrī, Ṭāṅkrī left-to-right   Takri 6.1 68 Ch 15.4
Tale 353 Tai Le left-to-right   Tai Le 4.0 35 Ch 16.5
Talu 354 New Tai Lue left-to-right   New Tai Lue 4.1 83 Ch 16.6
Taml 346 Tamil left-to-right   Tamil 1.0 123 Ch 12.6
Tang 520 Tangut vertical right-to-left, left-to-right   Tangut 9.0 6,914 Ancient/historic Ch 18.11
Tavt 359 Tai Viet left-to-right   Tai Viet 5.2 72 Ch 16.8
Tayo 380 Tai Yo top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is mature[ii]
Telu 340 Telugu left-to-right   Telugu 1.0 100 Ch 12.7
Teng 290 Tengwar left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Tfng 120 Tifinagh (Berber) left-to-right, right-to-left script, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top   Tifinagh 4.1 59 Ch 19.3
Tglg 370 Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata) left-to-right   Tagalog 3.2 23 Ch 17.1
Thaa 170 Thaana right-to-left script   Thaana 3.0 50 Ch 13.1
Thai 352 Thai left-to-right   Thai 1.0 86 Ch 16.1
Tibt 330 Tibetan left-to-right   Tibetan 2.0 207 Added in 1.0, removed in 1.1 and reintroduced in 2.0 Ch 13.4
Tirh 326 Tirhuta left-to-right   Tirhuta 7.0 82 Ch 15.11
Tnsa 275 Tangsa left-to-right Tangsa 14.0 89 Ch 13.18
Todr 229 Todhri right-to-left ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Tols 299 Tolong Siki left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is mature[ii]
Toto 294 Toto left-to-right Toto 14.0 31 Ch 13.17
Tutg 341 Tulu-Tigalari left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode, approved for version 16.0[iii]
Ugar 040 Ugaritic left-to-right   Ugaritic 4.0 31 Ancient/historic Ch 11.2
Vaii 470 Vai left-to-right   Vai 5.1 300 Ch 19.5
Visp 280 Visible Speech left-to-right ZZ— Not in Unicode
Vith 228 Vithkuqi left-to-right Vithkuqi 14.0 70 Ancient/historic Ch 8.12
Wara 262 Warang Citi (Varang Kshiti) left-to-right   Warang Citi 7.0 84 Ch 13.9
Wcho 283 Wancho left-to-right   Wancho 12.0 59 Ch 13.16
Wole 480 Woleai mixed ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[i]
Xpeo 030 Old Persian left-to-right   Old Persian 4.1 50 Ancient/historic Ch 11.3
Xsux 020 Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian left-to-right   Cuneiform 5.0 1,234 Ancient/historic Ch 11.1
Yezi 192 Yezidi right-to-left script   Yezidi 13.0 47 Ancient/historic Ch 9.6
Yiii 460 Yi left-to-right   Yi 3.0 1,220 Ch 18.7
Zanb 339 Zanabazar Square (Zanabazarin Dörböljin Useg, Xewtee Dörböljin Bicig, Horizontal Square Script) left-to-right   Zanabazar Square 10.0 72 Ancient/historic Ch 14.6
Zinh 994 Code for inherited script Inherited 657
Zmth 995 Mathematical notation ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zsym 996 Symbols ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zsye 993 Symbols (emoji variant) ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zxxx 997 Code for unwritten documents ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zyyy 998 Code for undetermined script Common 8,306
Zzzz 999 Code for uncoded script Unknown 964,234 In Unicode: All other code points
Notes
  1. ^
    ISO 15924 publications As of 12 September 2023
  2. ^
    ISO 15924 Normative text file As of 12 September 2023
  3. ^
    ISO 15924 Changes (including Aliases for Unicode; as of 12 September 2023)
  4. ^
    Unicode version 15.1
  5. ^
    Unicode charts
  6. ^
    Unicode uses the "Property Value Alias" (Alias) as the script-name. These Alias names are part of Unicode and are published informatively next to ISO 15924. An alias script name may be used in a character name: Palm, Palmyrene → U+10860 𐡠 PALMYRENE LETTER ALEPH.
  7. ^
    In Unicode, the Phoenician script is intended for the representation of text in Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic Phoenician, Phoenician, Early Aramaic, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyri, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite, and Punic.[vi]
References
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "SEI List of Scripts Not Yet Encoded". Unicode Consortium. March 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  2. ^ a b c d "Unicode Pipeline § Code Points Provisionally Assigned for Mature Proposals". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-12. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Unicode Pipeline § Approved for Publication in Version 16.0". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-12. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  4. ^ Michael Everson (1997-09-18). "Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2".
  5. ^ The Unicode Consortium (2001-08-14). "Approved Minutes of the UTC 87 / L2 184 Joint Meeting".
  6. ^ "Middle East-II, Ancient Scripts" (PDF). 15.0.0. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2023-09-25.

Missing scripts in Unicode edit

With each new version of Unicode, new writing systems are added to the international character code. According to a statement by linguist Dr Deborah Anderson of UC Berkeley, there are over 100 writing systems that have not yet been included in Unicode.

According to a list of the project Missing Scripts by the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany, the ANRT Nancy, France and UC Berkeley, USA, there are 294 known writing systems of mankind according to the current state of research (January 2022). 131 of them have not yet been encoded in Unicode, i.e. cannot yet be used on a computer or mobile phone.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Glossary". unicode.org.
  2. ^ "Unicode Character Database: Scripts". unicode.org.
  3. ^ "Chapter 14: Additional Ancient and Historic Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. September 2022. ISBN 978-1-936213-32-0.
  4. ^ https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/ Roadmaps to Unicode
  5. ^ "UAX #24: Unicode Script Property". www.unicode.org.

External links edit

  • Script Encoding Initiative, A project at UC Berkeley, USA, working to get more scripts included in the Unicode standard.
  • The World’s Writing Systems, An overview of all 294 known writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and their Unicode status.

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This article is about writing systems found in Unicode For the Script style of Latin letters in Unicode see Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and Script typeface ᓃ አ 文 あ ꦏ ழ ع ש D A vte In Unicode a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems 1 Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language for example Armenian Other scripts support many different writing systems for example the Latin script supports English French German Italian Vietnamese Latin itself and several other languages Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts for example in Turkish the Arabic script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century More or less complementary to scripts are symbols and Unicode control characters The unified diacritical characters and unified punctuation characters frequently have the common or inherited script property However the individual scripts often have their own punctuation and diacritics so that many scripts include not only letters but also diacritic and other marks punctuation numerals and even their own idiosyncratic symbols and space characters Unicode 15 1 defines 161 separate scripts including 94 modern scripts and 67 ancient or historic scripts 2 3 More scripts are in the process for encoding or have been tentatively allocated for encoding in roadmaps 4 Contents 1 Definition and classification 1 1 Script versus writing system 1 2 Special script property values 2 Character categories within scripts 3 List of scripts in Unicode 4 Missing scripts in Unicode 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksDefinition and classification editWhen multiple languages make use of the same script there are frequently some differences particularly in diacritics and other marks For example Swedish and English both use the Latin script However Swedish includes the character a sometimes called a Swedish O while English has no such character Nor does English make use of the diacritic combining ring above for any character In general the languages sharing the same scripts share many of the same characters Despite these peripheral differences in the Swedish and English writing systems they are said to use the same Latin script Thus the Unicode abstraction of scripts is a basic organizing technique The differences among different alphabets or writing systems remain and are supported through Unicode s flexible scripts combining marks and collation algorithms Script versus writing system edit Writing system is sometimes treated as a synonym for script However it also can be used as the specific concrete writing system supported by a script For example the Vietnamese writing system is supported by the Latin script A writing system may also cover more than one script for example the Japanese writing system makes use of the Han Hiragana and Katakana scripts Most writing systems can be broadly divided into several categories logographic syllabic alphabetic or segmental abugida abjad and featural however all features of any of these may be found in any given writing system in varying proportions often making it difficult to purely categorize a system The term complex system is sometimes used to describe those where the admixture makes classification problematic Unicode supports all of these types of writing systems through its numerous scripts Unicode also adds further properties to characters to help differentiate the various characters and the ways they behave within Unicode text processing algorithms Special script property values edit In addition to explicit or specific script properties Unicode uses three special values 5 Common Unicode can assign a character in the UCS to a single script only However many characters those that are not part of a formal natural language writing system or are unified across many writing systems may be used in more than one script for example currency signs symbols numerals and punctuation marks In these cases Unicode defines them as belonging to the common script ISO 15924 code Zyyy Inherited Many diacritics and non spacing combining characters may be applied to characters from more than one script In these cases Unicode assigns them to the inherited script ISO 15924 code Zinh which means that they have the same script class as the base character with which they combine and so in different contexts they may be treated as belonging to different scripts For example U 0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS may combine either with U 0065 e LATIN SMALL LETTER E to create a Latin e or with U 0435 e CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE for the Cyrillic yo In the former case it inherits the Latin script of the base character whereas in the latter case it inherits the Cyrillic script of the base character Unknown The value of unknown script ISO 15924 code Zzzz is given to unassigned private use noncharacter and surrogate code points Character categories within scripts editUnicode provides a general category property for each character So in addition to belonging to a script every character also has a general category Typically scripts include letter characters including uppercase letters lowercase letter and modifier letters Some characters are considered titlecase letters for a few precomposed ligatures such as Dz U 01F2 Such titlecase ligatures are all in the Latin and Greek scripts and are all compatibility characters and therefore Unicode discourages their use by authors It is unlikely that new titlecase letters will be added in the future Most writing systems do not differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters For those scripts all letters are categorized as other letter or modifier letter Ideographs such as Unihan ideographs are also categorized as other letters A few scripts do differentiate between uppercase and lowercase however Latin Cyrillic Greek Armenian Georgian and Deseret Even for these scripts there are some letters that are neither uppercase nor lowercase Scripts can also contain any other general category character such as marks diacritic and otherwise numbers numerals punctuation separators word separators such as spaces symbols and non graphical format characters These are included in a particular script when they are unique to that script Other such characters are generally unified and included in the punctuation or diacritic blocks However the bulk of characters in any script other than the common and inherited scripts are letters List of scripts in Unicode editUnicode defines over a hundred script names called Alias or Property value alias based on the ISO 15924 list Unicode uses the Common script name for ISO 15924 s Zyyy code for undetermined script Inherited for ISO 15924 s Zinh code for inherited script and Unknown for ISO 15924 s Zzzz code for uncoded script Not used are among others the ISO 15924 script codes Zsym Symbols and Zmth Mathematical notation These are considered not to be scripts in Unicode sense vteScripts in ISO 15924 a b and in Unicode c d ISO 15924 Script in Unicode e Code ISO number ISO formal name Directionality Unicode Alias f Version Characters Notes Description Adlm 166 Adlam right to left script nbsp Adlam 9 0 88 Ch 19 9 Afak 439 Afaka varies ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Aghb 239 Caucasian Albanian left to right nbsp Caucasian Albanian 7 0 53 Ancient historic Ch 8 11 Ahom 338 Ahom Tai Ahom left to right nbsp Ahom 8 0 65 Ancient historic Ch 15 16 Arab 160 Arabic right to left script nbsp Arabic 1 0 1 368 Ch 9 2 Aran 161 Arabic Nastaliq variant mixed ZZ Typographic variant of Arabic see Arab Armi 124 Imperial Aramaic right to left script nbsp Imperial Aramaic 5 2 31 Ancient historic Ch 10 4 Armn 230 Armenian left to right nbsp Armenian 1 0 96 Ch 7 6 Avst 134 Avestan right to left script nbsp Avestan 5 2 61 Ancient historic Ch 10 7 Bali 360 Balinese left to right nbsp Balinese 5 0 124 Ch 17 3 Bamu 435 Bamum left to right nbsp Bamum 5 2 657 Ch 19 6 Bass 259 Bassa Vah left to right nbsp Bassa Vah 7 0 36 Ancient historic Ch 19 7 Batk 365 Batak left to right nbsp Batak 6 0 56 Ch 17 6 Beng 325 Bengali Bangla left to right nbsp Bengali 1 0 96 Ch 12 2 Bhks 334 Bhaiksuki left to right nbsp Bhaiksuki 9 0 97 Ancient historic Ch 14 3 Blis 550 Blissymbols varies ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Bopo 285 Bopomofo left to right right to left script nbsp Bopomofo 1 0 77 Ch 18 3 Brah 300 Brahmi left to right nbsp Brahmi 6 0 115 Ancient historic Ch 14 1 Brai 570 Braille left to right nbsp Braille 3 0 256 Ch 21 1 Bugi 367 Buginese left to right nbsp Buginese 4 1 30 Ch 17 2 Buhd 372 Buhid left to right nbsp Buhid 3 2 20 Ch 17 1 Cakm 349 Chakma left to right nbsp Chakma 6 1 71 Ch 13 11 Cans 440 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics left to right nbsp Canadian Aboriginal 3 0 726 Ch 20 2 Cari 201 Carian left to right right to left script nbsp Carian 5 1 49 Ancient historic Ch 8 5 Cham 358 Cham left to right nbsp Cham 5 1 83 Ch 16 10 Cher 445 Cherokee left to right nbsp Cherokee 3 0 172 Ch 20 1 Chis 298 Chisoi left to right ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is mature ii Chrs 109 Chorasmian right to left script top to bottom nbsp Chorasmian 13 0 28 Ancient historic Ch 10 8 Cirt 291 Cirth varies ZZ Not in Unicode Copt 204 Coptic left to right nbsp Coptic 1 0 137 Ancient historic disunified from Greek in 4 1 Ch 7 3 Cpmn 402 Cypro Minoan left to right Cypro Minoan 14 0 99 Ancient historic Ch 8 4 Cprt 403 Cypriot syllabary right to left script nbsp Cypriot 4 0 55 Ancient historic Ch 8 3 Cyrl 220 Cyrillic left to right nbsp Cyrillic 1 0 506 Includes typographic variant Old Church Slavonic see Cyrs Ch 7 4 Cyrs 221 Cyrillic Old Church Slavonic variant varies ZZ Typographic variant of Cyrillic see Cyrl Ancient historic Deva 315 Devanagari Nagari left to right nbsp Devanagari 1 0 164 Ch 12 1 Diak 342 Dives Akuru left to right nbsp Dives Akuru 13 0 72 Ancient historic Ch 15 15 Dogr 328 Dogra left to right nbsp Dogra 11 0 60 Ancient historic Ch 15 18 Dsrt 250 Deseret Mormon left to right nbsp Deseret 3 1 80 Ch 20 4 Dupl 755 Duployan shorthand Duployan stenography left to right nbsp Duployan 7 0 143 Ch 21 6 Egyd 070 Egyptian demotic mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Egyh 060 Egyptian hieratic mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Egyp 050 Egyptian hieroglyphs right to left script left to right nbsp Egyptian Hieroglyphs 5 2 1 110 Ancient historic Ch 11 4 Elba 226 Elbasan left to right nbsp Elbasan 7 0 40 Ancient historic Ch 8 10 Elym 128 Elymaic right to left script nbsp Elymaic 12 0 23 Ancient historic Ch 10 9 Ethi 430 Ethiopic Geʻez left to right nbsp Ethiopic 3 0 523 Ch 19 1 Gara 164 Garay right to left ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Geok 241 Khutsuri Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri left to right nbsp Georgian Unicode groups Khutsori Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri into Georgian see Geok Similarly Mkhedruli and Mtavruli are Georgian see Geor Ch 7 7 Geor 240 Georgian Mkhedruli and Mtavruli left to right nbsp Georgian 1 0 173 In Unicode this also includes Nuskhuri Geok Ch 7 7 Glag 225 Glagolitic left to right nbsp Glagolitic 4 1 134 Ancient historic Ch 7 5 Gong 312 Gunjala Gondi left to right nbsp Gunjala Gondi 11 0 63 Ch 13 15 Gonm 313 Masaram Gondi left to right nbsp Masaram Gondi 10 0 75 Ch 13 14 Goth 206 Gothic left to right nbsp Gothic 3 1 27 Ancient historic Ch 8 9 Gran 343 Grantha left to right nbsp Grantha 7 0 85 Ancient historic Ch 15 14 Grek 200 Greek left to right nbsp Greek 1 0 518 Directionality sometimes as boustrophedon Ch 7 2 Gujr 320 Gujarati left to right nbsp Gujarati 1 0 91 Ch 12 4 Gukh 397 Gurung Khema left to right ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Guru 310 Gurmukhi left to right nbsp Gurmukhi 1 0 80 Ch 12 3 Hanb 503 Han with Bopomofo alias for Han Bopomofo mixed ZZ See Hani Bopo Hang 286 Hangul Hangŭl Hangeul left to right vertical right to left nbsp Hangul 1 0 11 739 Hangul syllables relocated in 2 0 Ch 18 6 Hani 500 Han Hanzi Kanji Hanja top to bottom columns right to left historically Han 1 0 99 030 Ch 18 1 Hano 371 Hanunoo Hanunoo left to right bottom to top nbsp Hanunoo 3 2 21 Ch 17 1 Hans 501 Han Simplified variant varies ZZ Subset of Han Hanzi Kanji Hanja see Hani Hant 502 Han Traditional variant varies ZZ Subset of Hani Hatr 127 Hatran right to left script nbsp Hatran 8 0 26 Ancient historic Ch 10 12 Hebr 125 Hebrew right to left script nbsp Hebrew 1 0 134 Ch 9 1 Hira 410 Hiragana vertical right to left left to right nbsp Hiragana 1 0 381 Ch 18 4 Hluw 080 Anatolian Hieroglyphs Luwian Hieroglyphs Hittite Hieroglyphs left to right nbsp Anatolian Hieroglyphs 8 0 583 Ancient historic Ch 11 6 Hmng 450 Pahawh Hmong left to right nbsp Pahawh Hmong 7 0 127 Ch 16 11 Hmnp 451 Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong left to right nbsp Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong 12 0 71 Ch 16 12 Hrkt 412 Japanese syllabaries alias for Hiragana Katakana vertical right to left left to right nbsp Katakana or Hiragana See Hira Kana Ch 18 4 Hung 176 Old Hungarian Hungarian Runic right to left script nbsp Old Hungarian 8 0 108 Ancient historic Ch 8 8 Inds 610 Indus Harappan mixed ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Ital 210 Old Italic Etruscan Oscan etc right to left script left to right nbsp Old Italic 3 1 39 Ancient historic Ch 8 6 Jamo 284 Jamo alias for Jamo subset of Hangul varies ZZ Subset of Hang Java 361 Javanese left to right nbsp Javanese 5 2 90 Ch 17 4 Jpan 413 Japanese alias for Han Hiragana Katakana varies ZZ See Hani Hira and Kana Jurc 510 Jurchen left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Kali 357 Kayah Li left to right nbsp Kayah Li 5 1 47 Ch 16 9 Kana 411 Katakana vertical right to left left to right nbsp Katakana 1 0 321 Ch 18 4 Kawi 368 Kawi left to right nbsp Kawi 15 0 86 Ancient historic Ch 17 9 Khar 305 Kharoshthi right to left script nbsp Kharoshthi 4 1 68 Ancient historic Ch 14 2 Khmr 355 Khmer left to right nbsp Khmer 3 0 146 Ch 16 4 Khoj 322 Khojki left to right nbsp Khojki 7 0 65 Ancient historic Ch 15 7 Kitl 505 Khitan large script left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Kits 288 Khitan small script vertical right to left nbsp Khitan Small Script 13 0 471 Ancient historic Ch 18 12 Knda 345 Kannada left to right nbsp Kannada 1 0 91 Ch 12 8 Kore 287 Korean alias for Hangul Han left to right ZZ See Hani Hang Kpel 436 Kpelle left to right ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Krai 396 Kirat Rai left to right ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Kthi 317 Kaithi left to right nbsp Kaithi 5 2 68 Ancient historic Ch 15 2 Lana 351 Tai Tham Lanna left to right nbsp Tai Tham 5 2 127 Ch 16 7 Laoo 356 Lao left to right nbsp Lao 1 0 83 Ch 16 2 Latf 217 Latin Fraktur variant varies ZZ Typographic variant of Latin see Latn Latg 216 Latin Gaelic variant left to right ZZ Typographic variant of Latin see Latn Latn 215 Latin left to right nbsp Latin 1 0 1 481 See also Latin script in Unicode Ch 7 1 Leke 364 Leke left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Lepc 335 Lepcha Rong left to right nbsp Lepcha 5 1 74 Ch 13 12 Limb 336 Limbu left to right nbsp Limbu 4 0 68 Ch 13 6 Lina 400 Linear A left to right nbsp Linear A 7 0 341 Ancient historic Ch 8 1 Linb 401 Linear B left to right nbsp Linear B 4 0 211 Ancient historic Ch 8 2 Lisu 399 Lisu Fraser left to right nbsp Lisu 5 2 49 Ch 18 9 Loma 437 Loma left to right ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Lyci 202 Lycian left to right nbsp Lycian 5 1 29 Ancient historic Ch 8 5 Lydi 116 Lydian right to left script nbsp Lydian 5 1 27 Ancient historic Ch 8 5 Mahj 314 Mahajani left to right nbsp Mahajani 7 0 39 Ancient historic Ch 15 6 Maka 366 Makasar left to right nbsp Makasar 11 0 25 Ancient historic Ch 17 8 Mand 140 Mandaic Mandaean right to left script nbsp Mandaic 6 0 29 Ch 9 5 Mani 139 Manichaean right to left script nbsp Manichaean 7 0 51 Ancient historic Ch 10 5 Marc 332 Marchen left to right nbsp Marchen 9 0 68 Ancient historic Ch 14 5 Maya 090 Mayan hieroglyphs mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Medf 265 Medefaidrin Oberi Okaime Oberi Ɔkaimɛ left to right nbsp Medefaidrin 11 0 91 Ch 19 10 Mend 438 Mende Kikakui right to left script nbsp Mende Kikakui 7 0 213 Ch 19 8 Merc 101 Meroitic Cursive right to left script nbsp Meroitic Cursive 6 1 90 Ancient historic Ch 11 5 Mero 100 Meroitic Hieroglyphs right to left script nbsp Meroitic Hieroglyphs 6 1 32 Ancient historic Ch 11 5 Mlym 347 Malayalam left to right nbsp Malayalam 1 0 118 Ch 12 9 Modi 324 Modi Moḍi left to right nbsp Modi 7 0 79 Ancient historic Ch 15 12 Mong 145 Mongolian vertical left to right left to right nbsp Mongolian 3 0 168 Mong includes Clear and Manchu scripts Ch 13 5 Moon 218 Moon Moon code Moon script Moon type mixed ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Mroo 264 Mro Mru left to right nbsp Mro 7 0 43 Ch 13 8 Mtei 337 Meitei Mayek Meithei Meetei left to right nbsp Meetei Mayek 5 2 79 Ch 13 7 Mult 323 Multani left to right nbsp Multani 8 0 38 Ancient historic Ch 15 10 Mymr 350 Myanmar Burmese left to right nbsp Myanmar 3 0 223 Ch 16 3 Nagm 295 Nag Mundari left to right nbsp Nag Mundari 15 0 42 Nand 311 Nandinagari left to right nbsp Nandinagari 12 0 65 Ancient historic Ch 15 13 Narb 106 Old North Arabian Ancient North Arabian right to left script nbsp Old North Arabian 7 0 32 Ancient historic Ch 10 1 Nbat 159 Nabataean right to left script nbsp Nabataean 7 0 40 Ancient historic Ch 10 10 Newa 333 Newa Newar Newari Nepala lipi left to right nbsp Newa 9 0 97 Ch 13 3 Nkdb 085 Naxi Dongba na ɕi to ba Nakhi Tomba left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Nkgb 420 Naxi Geba na ɕi gʌ ba Na Khi Ggŏ baw Nakhi Geba left to right ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Nkoo 165 N Ko right to left script nbsp NKo 5 0 62 Ch 19 4 Nshu 499 Nushu vertical right to left nbsp Nushu 10 0 397 Ch 18 8 Ogam 212 Ogham bottom to top left to right nbsp Ogham 3 0 29 Ancient historic Ch 8 14 Olck 261 Ol Chiki Ol Cemet Ol Santali left to right nbsp Ol Chiki 5 1 48 Ch 13 10 Onao 296 Ol Onal left to right ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Orkh 175 Old Turkic Orkhon Runic right to left script nbsp Old Turkic 5 2 73 Ancient historic Ch 14 8 Orya 327 Oriya Odia left to right nbsp Oriya 1 0 91 Ch 12 5 Osge 219 Osage left to right nbsp Osage 9 0 72 Ch 20 3 Osma 260 Osmanya left to right nbsp Osmanya 4 0 40 Ch 19 2 Ougr 143 Old Uyghur mixed Old Uyghur 14 0 26 Ancient historic Ch 14 11 Palm 126 Palmyrene right to left script nbsp Palmyrene 7 0 32 Ancient historic Ch 10 11 Pauc 263 Pau Cin Hau left to right nbsp Pau Cin Hau 7 0 57 Ch 16 13 Pcun 015 Proto Cuneiform left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Pelm 016 Proto Elamite left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Perm 227 Old Permic left to right nbsp Old Permic 7 0 43 Ancient historic Ch 8 13 Phag 331 Phags pa vertical left to right nbsp Phags pa 5 0 56 Ancient historic Ch 14 4 Phli 131 Inscriptional Pahlavi right to left script nbsp Inscriptional Pahlavi 5 2 27 Ancient historic Ch 10 6 Phlp 132 Psalter Pahlavi right to left script nbsp Psalter Pahlavi 7 0 29 Ancient historic Ch 10 6 Phlv 133 Book Pahlavi mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Phnx 115 Phoenician right to left script nbsp Phoenician 5 0 29 Ancient historic g Ch 10 3 Piqd 293 Klingon KLI pIqaD left to right nbsp ZZ Rejected for inclusion in Unicode iv v Plrd 282 Miao Pollard left to right nbsp Miao 6 1 149 Ch 18 10 Prti 130 Inscriptional Parthian right to left script nbsp Inscriptional Parthian 5 2 30 Ancient historic Ch 10 6 Psin 103 Proto Sinaitic mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Qaaa Qabx 900 949 Reserved for private use range ZZ Not in Unicode Ranj 303 Ranjana left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Rjng 363 Rejang Redjang Kaganga left to right nbsp Rejang 5 1 37 Ch 17 5 Rohg 167 Hanifi Rohingya right to left script nbsp Hanifi Rohingya 11 0 50 Ch 16 14 Roro 620 Rongorongo mixed ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Runr 211 Runic left to right boustrophedon nbsp Runic 3 0 86 Ancient historic Ch 8 7 Samr 123 Samaritan right to left script top to bottom nbsp Samaritan 5 2 61 Ch 9 4 Sara 292 Sarati mixed ZZ Not in Unicode Sarb 105 Old South Arabian right to left script nbsp Old South Arabian 5 2 32 Ancient historic Ch 10 2 Saur 344 Saurashtra left to right nbsp Saurashtra 5 1 82 Ch 13 13 Sgnw 095 SignWriting vertical left to right nbsp SignWriting 8 0 672 Ch 21 7 Shaw 281 Shavian Shaw left to right nbsp Shavian 4 0 48 Ch 8 15 Shrd 319 Sharada Sarada left to right nbsp Sharada 6 1 96 Ch 15 3 Shui 530 Shuishu left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Sidd 302 Siddham Siddhaṃ Siddhamatṛka left to right nbsp Siddham 7 0 92 Ancient historic Ch 15 5 Sidt 180 Sidetic right to left ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is mature ii Sind 318 Khudawadi Sindhi left to right nbsp Khudawadi 7 0 69 Ch 15 9 Sinh 348 Sinhala left to right nbsp Sinhala 3 0 111 Ch 13 2 Sogd 141 Sogdian horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts top to bottom nbsp Sogdian 11 0 42 Ancient historic Ch 14 10 Sogo 142 Old Sogdian right to left script nbsp Old Sogdian 11 0 40 Ancient historic Ch 14 9 Sora 398 Sora Sompeng left to right nbsp Sora Sompeng 6 1 35 Ch 15 17 Soyo 329 Soyombo left to right nbsp Soyombo 10 0 83 Ancient historic Ch 14 7 Sund 362 Sundanese left to right nbsp Sundanese 5 1 72 Ch 17 7 Sunu 274 Sunuwar left to right ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Sylo 316 Syloti Nagri left to right nbsp Syloti Nagri 4 1 45 Ancient historic Ch 15 1 Syrc 135 Syriac right to left script nbsp Syriac 3 0 88 Includes typographic variants Estrangelo see Syre Western Syrj and Eastern Syrn Ch 9 3 Syre 138 Syriac Estrangelo variant mixed ZZ Typographic variant of Syriac see Syrc Syrj 137 Syriac Western variant mixed ZZ Typographic variant of Syriac see Syrc Syrn 136 Syriac Eastern variant mixed ZZ Typographic variant of Syriac see Syrc Tagb 373 Tagbanwa left to right nbsp Tagbanwa 3 2 18 Ch 17 1 Takr 321 Takri Ṭakri Ṭaṅkri left to right nbsp Takri 6 1 68 Ch 15 4 Tale 353 Tai Le left to right nbsp Tai Le 4 0 35 Ch 16 5 Talu 354 New Tai Lue left to right nbsp New Tai Lue 4 1 83 Ch 16 6 Taml 346 Tamil left to right nbsp Tamil 1 0 123 Ch 12 6 Tang 520 Tangut vertical right to left left to right nbsp Tangut 9 0 6 914 Ancient historic Ch 18 11 Tavt 359 Tai Viet left to right nbsp Tai Viet 5 2 72 Ch 16 8 Tayo 380 Tai Yo top to bottom columns right to left ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is mature ii Telu 340 Telugu left to right nbsp Telugu 1 0 100 Ch 12 7 Teng 290 Tengwar left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Tfng 120 Tifinagh Berber left to right right to left script top to bottom bottom to top nbsp Tifinagh 4 1 59 Ch 19 3 Tglg 370 Tagalog Baybayin Alibata left to right nbsp Tagalog 3 2 23 Ch 17 1 Thaa 170 Thaana right to left script nbsp Thaana 3 0 50 Ch 13 1 Thai 352 Thai left to right nbsp Thai 1 0 86 Ch 16 1 Tibt 330 Tibetan left to right nbsp Tibetan 2 0 207 Added in 1 0 removed in 1 1 and reintroduced in 2 0 Ch 13 4 Tirh 326 Tirhuta left to right nbsp Tirhuta 7 0 82 Ch 15 11 Tnsa 275 Tangsa left to right Tangsa 14 0 89 Ch 13 18 Todr 229 Todhri right to left ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Tols 299 Tolong Siki left to right ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is mature ii Toto 294 Toto left to right Toto 14 0 31 Ch 13 17 Tutg 341 Tulu Tigalari left to right ZZ Not in Unicode approved for version 16 0 iii Ugar 040 Ugaritic left to right nbsp Ugaritic 4 0 31 Ancient historic Ch 11 2 Vaii 470 Vai left to right nbsp Vai 5 1 300 Ch 19 5 Visp 280 Visible Speech left to right ZZ Not in Unicode Vith 228 Vithkuqi left to right Vithkuqi 14 0 70 Ancient historic Ch 8 12 Wara 262 Warang Citi Varang Kshiti left to right nbsp Warang Citi 7 0 84 Ch 13 9 Wcho 283 Wancho left to right nbsp Wancho 12 0 59 Ch 13 16 Wole 480 Woleai mixed ZZ Not in Unicode proposal is explored i Xpeo 030 Old Persian left to right nbsp Old Persian 4 1 50 Ancient historic Ch 11 3 Xsux 020 Cuneiform Sumero Akkadian left to right nbsp Cuneiform 5 0 1 234 Ancient historic Ch 11 1 Yezi 192 Yezidi right to left script nbsp Yezidi 13 0 47 Ancient historic Ch 9 6 Yiii 460 Yi left to right nbsp Yi 3 0 1 220 Ch 18 7 Zanb 339 Zanabazar Square Zanabazarin Dorboljin Useg Xewtee Dorboljin Bicig Horizontal Square Script left to right nbsp Zanabazar Square 10 0 72 Ancient historic Ch 14 6 Zinh 994 Code for inherited script Inherited 657 Zmth 995 Mathematical notation ZZ Not a script in Unicode Zsym 996 Symbols ZZ Not a script in Unicode Zsye 993 Symbols emoji variant ZZ Not a script in Unicode Zxxx 997 Code for unwritten documents ZZ Not a script in Unicode Zyyy 998 Code for undetermined script Common 8 306 Zzzz 999 Code for uncoded script Unknown 964 234 In Unicode All other code points Notes ISO 15924 publications As of 12 September 2023 update ISO 15924 Normative text file As of 12 September 2023 update ISO 15924 Changes including Aliases for Unicode as of 12 September 2023 update Unicode version 15 1 Unicode charts Unicode uses the Property Value Alias Alias as the script name These Alias names are part of Unicode and are published informatively next to ISO 15924 An alias script name may be used in a character name Palm Palmyrene U 10860 𐡠 PALMYRENE LETTER ALEPH In Unicode the Phoenician script is intended for the representation of text in Paleo Hebrew Archaic Phoenician Phoenician Early Aramaic Late Phoenician cursive Phoenician papyri Siloam Hebrew Hebrew seals Ammonite Moabite and Punic vi References a b c d e f g h i SEI List of Scripts Not Yet Encoded Unicode Consortium March 2023 Retrieved 2023 09 25 a b c d Unicode Pipeline Code Points Provisionally Assigned for Mature Proposals Unicode Consortium 2023 09 12 Retrieved 2023 09 25 a b c d e f g Unicode Pipeline Approved for Publication in Version 16 0 Unicode Consortium 2023 09 12 Retrieved 2023 09 25 Michael Everson 1997 09 18 Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of ISO IEC 10646 2 The Unicode Consortium 2001 08 14 Approved Minutes of the UTC 87 L2 184 Joint Meeting Middle East II Ancient Scripts PDF 15 0 0 The Unicode Consortium Retrieved 2023 09 25 Missing scripts in Unicode editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Script Unicode news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message With each new version of Unicode new writing systems are added to the international character code According to a statement by linguist Dr Deborah Anderson of UC Berkeley there are over 100 writing systems that have not yet been included in Unicode According to a list of the project Missing Scripts by the University of Applied Sciences Mainz Germany the ANRT Nancy France and UC Berkeley USA there are 294 known writing systems of mankind according to the current state of research January 2022 131 of them have not yet been encoded in Unicode i e cannot yet be used on a computer or mobile phone See also editLatin script in Unicode Unicode characters Unicode symbols Phonemic and phonetic orthographyReferences edit Glossary unicode org Unicode Character Database Scripts unicode org Chapter 14 Additional Ancient and Historic Scripts The Unicode Standard Version 15 0 PDF Mountain View CA Unicode Inc September 2022 ISBN 978 1 936213 32 0 https www unicode org roadmaps Roadmaps to Unicode UAX 24 Unicode Script Property www unicode org External links editScript Encoding Initiative A project at UC Berkeley USA working to get more scripts included in the Unicode standard The World s Writing Systems An overview of all 294 known writing systems each with a typographic reference glyph and their Unicode status Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Script Unicode amp oldid 1218554802, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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