Vai (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Vai

Range| U+A500..U+A63F
(320 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Vai
Major alphabets| Vai
Assigned| 300 code points
Unused| 20 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1| 300 (+300)
Note: [1][2]

Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

## Block

## History

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

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

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5.1 | U+A500..A62B | 300 | L2/04-374 |  | Riley, Charles (2004-11-06), Status report on Vai encoding
L2/05-053 |  | Riley, Charles L.; Rivera, José R.; Sherman, Tombekai V.; Glavy, Jason (2005-01-31), Preliminary codechart for encoding Vai into the SMP of the UCS
L2/05-180 |  | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
L2/06-136 |  | McGowan, Rick (2006-04-18), Regarding WG2 N3081, proposal for additions to Vai
L2/06-120R | N3081R | Everson, Michael (2006-04-23), Proposal for addition of Vai characters to the UCS
L2/06-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes
| N3103 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
L2/07-104 | N3243R | Everson, Michael (2007-04-18), Proposal to add additional historic syllables for Vai
L2/07-118R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/05-171 |  | Riley, Charles (2008-07-21), List of Contributors and Participants in the Vai Proposal for Unicode

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/.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html.

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