Bamum Supplement

See also: Bamum (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Bamum Supplement

Range| U+16800..U+16A3F
(576 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Bamum
Assigned| 569 code points
Unused| 7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0| 569 (+569)
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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.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 References

## 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

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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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