Bamum Supplement

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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Short description: Unicode character block

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]"
			↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

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

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[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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