Tagalog (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Tagalog

Range| U+1700..U+171F
(32 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Tagalog
Major alphabets| Baybayin
Assigned| 20 code points
Unused| 12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2| 20 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

Tagalog is a Unicode block containing characters of the Baybayin script, specifically the variety used for writing the Tagalog language before Spanish colonization of the Philippines eventually led to the adoption of the Latin alphabet. It has been a part of the Unicode Standard since version 3.2 in April 2002. Tagalog characters can be found in the Noto Sans Tagalog font, among others. The Tagalog Baybayin script was originally proposed for inclusion in Unicode alongside its descendant Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa scripts as a single block called "Philippine Scripts" and two punctuation marks are only part of the Hanunoo block. In 2021, with version 14.0, the Unicode Standard was updated to add three new characters: the "ra" and archaic "ra", and the pamudpod.

## History

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

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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L2/98-397 |  | Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
L2/99-014 | N1933 | Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) |  | Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998, "[#78-M8] Motion:To accept document L2/98-397, Revised proposal for encoding Philippine scripts, for addition to the Unicode Standard after Version 3.0."
L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
L2/00-097 | N2194 | Sato, T. K. (2000-02-22), Philippino characters (status report)
L2/00-357 |  | Everson, Michael (2000-10-16), Philippine Scripts (draft block description)
L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
14.0 | U+170D, 171F | 2 | L2/19-258R |  | Brennan, Fredrick R. (2019-07-18), The baybayin "ra", its origins and a plea for its formal recognition
L2/19-286 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals
L2/19-270 |  | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), UTC #160 Minutes
U+1715 | 1 | L2/20-257 |  | Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-09-23), Please reclassify the Philippine pamudpod
L2/20-250 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-272 |  | Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-10-03), Amended proposal to encode the Tagalog pamudpod
L2/20-237 |  | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes
L2/21-117 |  | Pournader, Roozbeh (2021-05-20), Pamudpod properties (Tagalog and Hanunoo)
L2/21-130 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-123 |  | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## Notes

## 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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