Elymaic

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The Elymaic alphabet is a right-to-left, non-joining abjad. [1] It is derived from the Aramaic alphabet. [2] Elymaic was used in the ancient state of Elymais, [1] which was a semi-independent state of the 2nd century BCE to the early 3rd century CE, frequently a vassal under Parthian control, in the present-day region of Khuzestan, Iran (Susiana). [3]

Elymaic alphabet
Script type
Time period
2nd century BCE — early 3rd century CE
Direction Right-to-left script   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
LanguagesAchaemenid Aramaic [1]
Related scripts
Parent systems
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 Elym(128),​Elymaic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Elymaic
U+10FE0–U+10FFF

Unicode

The Elymaic alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2019 with the release of version 12.0.

The Unicode block for Elymaic is U+10FE0–U+10FFF:

Elymaic [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+10FEx𐿠‎𐿡‎𐿢‎𐿣‎𐿤‎𐿥‎𐿦‎𐿧‎𐿨‎𐿩‎𐿪‎𐿫‎𐿬‎𐿭‎𐿮‎𐿯‎
U+10FFx𐿰‎𐿱‎𐿲‎𐿳‎𐿴‎𐿵‎𐿶‎
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pandey, Anshuman (2017-10-23). "L2/17226R2: Proposal to encode the Elymaic script in Unicode" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  2. ↑ Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems . Oxford University Press, Inc. pp.  89. ISBN   978-0195079937.
  3. ↑ Hansman, John F. "ELYMAIS". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2012-12-24.


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