| Carian | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+102A0..U+102DF (64 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Carian |
| Major alphabets | Carian |
| Assigned | 49 code points |
| Unused | 15 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.1 | 49 (+49) |
| Note: [1] [2] | |
Carian is a Unicode block containing the Masson set and four additional characters for writing the ancient Carian language in Caria and Egypt, where the Carians served as mercenaries.
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the addition of new glyphs are discussed and evaluated by considering the relevant block or blocks as a whole.
The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwian subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The Carian language was spoken in Caria, a region of western Anatolia between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, by the Carians, a name possibly first mentioned in Hittite sources. Carian is closely related to Lycian and Milyan, and both are closely related to, though not direct descendants of, Luwian. Whether the correspondences between Luwian, Carian, and Lycian are due to direct descent, or are due to dialect geography, is disputed.
| Carian [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+102Ax | 𐊠 | 𐊡 | 𐊢 | 𐊣 | 𐊤 | 𐊥 | 𐊦 | 𐊧 | 𐊨 | 𐊩 | 𐊪 | 𐊫 | 𐊬 | 𐊭 | 𐊮 | 𐊯 |
| U+102Bx | 𐊰 | 𐊱 | 𐊲 | 𐊳 | 𐊴 | 𐊵 | 𐊶 | 𐊷 | 𐊸 | 𐊹 | 𐊺 | 𐊻 | 𐊼 | 𐊽 | 𐊾 | 𐊿 |
| U+102Cx | 𐋀 | 𐋁 | 𐋂 | 𐋃 | 𐋄 | 𐋅 | 𐋆 | 𐋇 | 𐋈 | 𐋉 | 𐋊 | 𐋋 | 𐋌 | 𐋍 | 𐋎 | 𐋏 |
| U+102Dx | 𐋐 | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Carian block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | U+102A0..102D0 | 49 | L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | |
| L2/00-153 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts | ||||
| L2/05-100 | N2938 | Everson, Michael (2005-04-27), Proposal for encoding the Carian script in the UCS | |||
| L2/05-241 | Everson, Michael (2005-08-31), Old Anatolian scripts | ||||
| L2/05-386 | N3020R | Everson, Michael (2006-01-12), Proposal to encode the Carian script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/06-008R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.2", UTC #106 Minutes | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| N3103 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27 | ||||
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