Mongolian Supplement

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Mongolian Supplement
RangeU+11660..U+1167F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Mongolian
Assigned13 code points
Unused19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.013 (+13)
Note: [1] [2]

Mongolian Supplement is a Unicode block containing additional Mongolian letters not found in Mongolian block in BMP. It currently comprises nine variant forms of birga marks used to mark the start of text.

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.

Mongolian script vertically written traditional Mongolian script

The classical or traditional Mongolian script, also known as the Hudum Mongol bichig, was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946. It is traditionally written in vertical lines Top-Down, right across the page. Derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet, Mongolian is a true alphabet, with separate letters for consonants and vowels. The Mongolian script has been adapted to write languages such as Oirat and Manchu. Alphabets based on this classical vertical script are used in Inner Mongolia and other parts of China to this day to write Mongolian, Xibe and experimentally, Evenki.

Mongolian is a Unicode block containing characters for dialects of Mongolian, Manchu, and Sibe languages. It is traditionally written in vertical lines Top-Down, right across the page, although the Unicode code charts cite the characters rotated to horizontal orientation as this is the orientation of glyphs in a font that supports layout in vertical orientation.

Contents

Mongolian Supplement [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1166x𑙠𑙡𑙢𑙣𑙤𑙥𑙦𑙧𑙨𑙩𑙪𑙫𑙬
U+1167x
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 12.0
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 Mongolian Supplement block:

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
9.0U+11660..1166C13 L2/14-030 Bell, Aaron; Eck, Greg; Glass, Andrew; West, Andrew (2014-01-17), Encoding Mongolian head letters
L2/14-067 N4542 Bell, Aaron; Eck, Greg; Glass, Andrew; West, Andrew (2014-02-06), Proposal to encode five Mongolian head letters
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "C.6.3", UTC #138 Minutes
L2/14-081 N4547 Comments on N4542 Five Mongolian Head Marks, 2014-02-19
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "C.6.1", UTC #139 Minutes
N4553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "10.3.9", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
L2/14-240 N4632 A Letter to the Authors of N4542 (5 Birgas in Mongolian Block), 2014-09-23
L2/14-259 Whistler, Ken; Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-21), WG2 Consent Docket
L2/14-250 Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "C.12", UTC #141 Minutes
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.02c, M63.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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