| Tirhuta | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11480..U+114DF (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Tirhuta |
| Major alphabets | Maithili |
| Assigned | 82 code points |
| Unused | 14 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 (2014) | 82 (+82) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1] [2] | |
Tirhuta is a Unicode block containing characters for Brahmi-derived Tirhuta script which was the primary writing system for Maithili in Bihar, India and Madhesh, Nepal until the 20th century. [3]
| Tirhuta [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+1148x | 𑒀 | 𑒁 | 𑒂 | 𑒃 | 𑒄 | 𑒅 | 𑒆 | 𑒇 | 𑒈 | 𑒉 | 𑒊 | 𑒋 | 𑒌 | 𑒍 | 𑒎 | 𑒏 |
| U+1149x | 𑒐 | 𑒑 | 𑒒 | 𑒓 | 𑒔 | 𑒕 | 𑒖 | 𑒗 | 𑒘 | 𑒙 | 𑒚 | 𑒛 | 𑒜 | 𑒝 | 𑒞 | 𑒟 |
| U+114Ax | 𑒠 | 𑒡 | 𑒢 | 𑒣 | 𑒤 | 𑒥 | 𑒦 | 𑒧 | 𑒨 | 𑒩 | 𑒪 | 𑒫 | 𑒬 | 𑒭 | 𑒮 | 𑒯 |
| U+114Bx | 𑒰 | 𑒱 | 𑒲 | 𑒳 | 𑒴 | 𑒵 | 𑒶 | 𑒷 | 𑒸 | 𑒹 | 𑒺 | 𑒻 | 𑒼 | 𑒽 | 𑒾 | 𑒿 |
| U+114Cx | 𑓀 | 𑓁 | 𑓂 | 𑓃 | 𑓄 | 𑓅 | 𑓆 | 𑓇 | ||||||||
| U+114Dx | 𑓐 | 𑓑 | 𑓒 | 𑓓 | 𑓔 | 𑓕 | 𑓖 | 𑓗 | 𑓘 | 𑓙 | ||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tirhuta block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+11480..114C7, 114D0..114D9 | 82 | L2/06-226 | Pandey, Anshuman (2006-06-21), Request to Allocate the Maithili Script in the Unicode Roadmap | |
| L2/09-329 | N3765 | Pandey, Anshuman (2009-09-30), Towards an Encoding for the Maithili Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/11-175R | N4035 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-05), Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.9", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C35", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | "11.1.1 Tirhuta Script (was Maithili)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
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The Tirhuta or Maithili script was the primary historical script for the Maithili language, as well as one of the historical scripts for Sanskrit. It is believed to have originated in the 10th century CE. It is very similar to Bengali–Assamese script, with most consonants being effectively identical in appearance. For the most part, writing in Maithili has switched to the Devanagari script, which is used to write neighbouring Central Indic languages to the west and north such as Hindi and Nepali, and the number of people with a working knowledge of Tirhuta has dropped considerably in recent years.
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