Armenian (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Armenian

Range| U+0530..U+058F
(96 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Armenian
Major alphabets| Armenian alphabet
Assigned| 91 code points
Unused| 5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0| 84 (+84)
1.1| 85 (+1)
3.0| 86 (+1)
6.1| 87 (+1)
7.0| 89 (+2)
11.0| 91 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Armenian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Armenian language, both the traditional Western Armenian and reformed Eastern Armenian orthographies. Five Armenian ligatures are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block.

## Block

## History

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

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

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1.0.0 | U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 | 84 |  |  | (to be determined)
L2/17-315 |  | Golev, Yury; Anderson, Deborah (2017-09-07), Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian
L2/17-384 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-362 |  | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes
1.1 | U+0587 | 1 |  |  | (to be determined)
3.0 | U+058A | 1 |  | N1395 | Youatt, Richard (1996-06-04), Armenian Repertoire Proposal Summary Form
| N1446 |  U.S. Position on Armenian (N 1395), 1996-08-09
| N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
| N1560 | Youatt, Richard (1997-05-16), Response on US feedback on Armenian
L2/97-161 | N1616 | Suignard, Michel (1997-07-03), Armenian ad hoc report
L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
L2/98-004R | N1681 |  Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
L2/98-318 | N1894 |  Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
6.1 | U+058F | 1 | L2/10-015R |  | Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
L2/10-008R | N3771 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol
| N3824-SARM |  SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19
L2/10-136 | N3827 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-21), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4125 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646)
| N3803 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
7.0 | U+058D..058E | 2 | L2/98-426 | N1981 |  Armenian Comments on SC 2 N 3134, Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, 1998-12-16
L2/99-047 | N1984 | Suignard, Michel (1999-02-05), Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO/IEC 10646, answer to SC2 N3222
L2/99-054R |  | Aliprand, Joan (1999-06-21), Approved Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Palo Alto, February 3-5, 1999
L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
L2/10-133 | N3824 |  Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19
| N3824-SARM |  SARM – Armenian NB Comments on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646) [Proposal for Armenian symbols], 2010-04-19
L2/10-136 | N3827 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-21), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4125 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646)
L2/10-354 | N3924 | Everson, Michael (2010-09-24), Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian
L2/10-372 | N3921 |  Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4146, ISO/IEC CD 10646 (3rd Ed.), 2010-09-24
L2/10-373 | N3923 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-24), Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to the UCS
| N3903 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/11-261R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, "Approve revised code points for the two Armenian eternity signs..."
| N4103 |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
11.0 | U+0560, 0588 | 2 | L2/17-032 | N4806 | Baronian, Luc V. (2017-01-19), Armenian Phonetic Characters in Unicode
L2/17-037 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard et al. (2017-01-21), Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016 |  | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes
| N4953 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23, "058B ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER TURNED AYB is moved to 0560, and 058C ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER YI WITH STROKE is moved to 0588."
L2/17-353 |  | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), WG2 Consent Docket
L2/17-362 |  | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes

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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