Bamum Supplement

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See also: Bamum (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Bamum Supplement
RangeU+16800..U+16A3F
(576 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsBamum
Assigned569 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0569 (+569)
Note: [1][2]

Bamum Supplement is a Unicode block containing the characters of the historic stage A-F of the Bamum script, used for writing the Bamum language of western Cameroon. The modern stage G characters, which include many characters used for stage A-F orthographies, are included in the Bamum block.

Block

Template:Unicode chart Bamum Supplement

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.0 U+16800..16A38 569 L2/06-313 Riley, Charles (2006-09-21), Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon 
L2/07-023 Riley, Charles (2007-01-19), Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS 
L2/09-019 N3564 Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2009-01-27), Proposal for encoding the Old Bamum script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-102 N3597 Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2009-03-28), Proposal for encoding additional Bamum characters 
L2/09-106 N3523 Everson, Michael (2009-03-28), Sources for the encoding of historical Bamum characters 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes 
L2/24-009R Scherer, Markus (2024-01-19), UTC #178 properties feedback & recommendations 
L2/24-006 Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), UTC #178 Minutes, "Create a formal alias BAMUM LETTER PHASE-A MAEMGBIEE of type "correction" for U+1680B BAMUM LETTER PHASE-A MAEMBGBIEE" 
L2/25-091R Kučera, Jan (2025-04-22), Recommendations to UTC #183 (April 2025) on Script Proposals 
L2/25-085 Leroy, Robin (2025-04-28), UTC #183 Minutes, "Create [...] formal aliases of type "correction" [Affects U+16881, 1688E, 168DC, and 1697D]" 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 



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