Bassa Vah (Unicode block)

Bassa Vah
Range	U+16AD0..U+16AFF (48 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Bassa Vah
Major alphabets	Bassa
Assigned	36 code points
Unused	12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	36 (+36)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Bassa Vah is a Unicode block containing characters of the Bassa Vah alphabet which were historically used for writing the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. ^[3]

Bassa Vah [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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A

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U+16ADx

𖫐

𖫑

𖫒

𖫓

𖫔

𖫕

𖫖

𖫗

𖫘

𖫙

𖫚

𖫛

𖫜

𖫝

𖫞

𖫟

U+16AEx

𖫠

𖫡

𖫢

𖫣

𖫤

𖫥

𖫦

𖫧

𖫨

𖫩

𖫪

𖫫

𖫬

𖫭

U+16AFx

𖫰

𖫱

𖫲

𖫳

𖫴

𖫵

Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bassa Vah block:

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
7.0	U+16AD0..16AED, 16AF0..16AF5	36	L2/09-327		Riley, Charles (2009-03-20), Encoding of the Bassa Vah script in the UCS
			L2/10-030	N3760	Everson, Michael (2010-01-26), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/10-170	N3839	Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-05-08), Proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/10-217	N3847	Everson, Michael (2010-07-31), Revised proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/10-382R	N3941R	Everson, Michael (2010-10-06), Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C23", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
			L2/11-041R	N3991	Riley, Charles (2011-02-14), Bassa Vah Comma
			L2/11-016		Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Bassa Vah Comma (C.17)", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	"M57.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C28", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP.
				N4103	"T.5. Bassa Vah", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-10-06). "N3941R: Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.