Wancho script

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Wancho
𞋒𞋀𞋉𞋃𞋕
Shukla Wancho.svg
The word 'Wancho' in Wancho script
Script type
CreatorBanwang Losu
Created2001
DirectionLeft-to-right  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Languages Wancho language
ISO 15924
ISO 15924 Wcho(283),Wancho
Unicode
Unicode alias
Wancho
U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF

Wancho script is an alphabet created between 2001 and 2012 by middle school teacher Banwang Losu in Longding district, Arunachal Pradesh for writing the Wancho language. [1] Letters represent consonants and vowels. Conjunct consonants are not used. Tone is indicated with diacritical marks on vowel letters. [1]

While Wancho script is taught in some schools, the Wancho language is generally written in either Devanagari script or the Latin alphabet.

Unicode

Wancho script was added to the Unicode Standard in March 2019 on version 12.0.

The Unicode block for Wancho is U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF:

Wancho [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+1E2Cx𞋀𞋁𞋂𞋃𞋄𞋅𞋆𞋇𞋈𞋉𞋊𞋋𞋌𞋍𞋎𞋏
U+1E2Dx𞋐𞋑𞋒𞋓𞋔𞋕𞋖𞋗𞋘𞋙𞋚𞋛𞋜𞋝𞋞𞋟
U+1E2Ex𞋠𞋡𞋢𞋣𞋤𞋥𞋦𞋧𞋨𞋩𞋪𞋫𞋬𞋭𞋮𞋯
U+1E2Fx𞋰𞋱𞋲𞋳𞋴𞋵𞋶𞋷𞋸𞋹𞋿
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

  1. 1 2 Everson, Michael (2017-10-22). "L2/17-067R2: Proposal to encode the Wancho script" (PDF).