| Ahom | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11700..U+1174F (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Ahom |
| Major alphabets | Ahom |
| Assigned | 65 code points |
| Unused | 15 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 8.0 (2015) | 57 (+57) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 58 (+1) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 65 (+7) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: The Ahom block was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode 14.0. [1] [2] | |
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. [3]
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. [4] This is the first block to be 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 | |||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ahom block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | 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 | ||||
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