Palmyrene (Unicode block)

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Palmyrene
RangeU+10860..U+1087F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Palmyrene
Major alphabetsPalmyrene
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.032 (+32)
Note: [1] [2]

Palmyrene is a Unicode block containing characters for the historical Palmyrene alphabet used to write the local Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic. [3]

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.

Palmyrene alphabet alphabet used to write the Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic

Palmyrene was a historical Semitic alphabet used to write the local Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic. It was used between 100 BCE and 300 CE in Palmyra in the Syrian desert. The oldest surviving Palmyrene inscription dates to 44 BCE. The last surviving inscription dates to 274 CE, two years after Palmyra was sacked by Roman Emperor Aurelian, ending the Palmyrene Empire. Use of the Palmyrene language and script declined, being replaced with Greek and Latin.

Palmyrene or Palmyrenean was a Western Aramaic dialect spoken in the city of Palmyra, Syria, in the early centuries AD. The development of cursive versions of Aramaic led to the creation of the Palmyrene alphabet.

Palmyrene [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1086x𐡠𐡡𐡢𐡣𐡤𐡥𐡦𐡧𐡨𐡩𐡪𐡫𐡬𐡭𐡮𐡯
U+1087x𐡰𐡱𐡲𐡳𐡴𐡵𐡶𐡷𐡸𐡹𐡺𐡻𐡼𐡽𐡾𐡿
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 12.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Palmyrene block:

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
7.0U+10860..1087F32 L2/10-003 N3749 Everson, Michael (2010-01-21), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Palmyrene script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-255R2 N3867R2 Everson, Michael (2010-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Palmyrene script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-221 Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.16", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc)"M57.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
  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.
  3. ↑ Everson, Michael (17 August 2010). "N3867R2: Proposal for encoding the Palmyrene script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2016.
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