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Ethiopic (Unicode block)

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See also: Ethiopic Supplement (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended-A, and Ethiopic Extended-B
Short description: Unicode character block
Ethiopic
RangeU+1200..U+137F
(384 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsEthiopic
Major alphabetsGeʽez
Assigned358 code points
Unused26 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0345 (+345)
4.1356 (+11)
6.0358 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Ethiopic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Geʽez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Harari, Gurage and other Ethiosemitic languages and Central Cushitic languages or Agaw languages.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
UTC/1995-013 Becker, Joe (1995-02-26), Proposal for Ethiopian Encoding in Unicode/10646 
UTC/1995-055b Yacob, Daniel (1995-10-06), Ethiopic Glyphs Variants 
X3L2/95-116 N1270 Ross, Hugh McGregor (1995-10-12), Proposal for Inclusion of Ethiopian-Eritrean Syllabary 
UTC/1995-055a X3L2/95-134 N1326 Becker, Joe (1995-12-07), Conclusive Proposal for Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary 
UTC/1996-002 Aliprand, Joan; Hart, Edwin; Greenfield, Steve (1996-03-05), UTC #67 Minutes 
N1372 Ross, Hugh McGregor (1996-04-23), Update on N 1270 and N 1326 - Ethiopic 
UTC/1996-024 X3L2/96-067 Everson, Michael; Becker, Joe (1996-06-04), Michael Everson Response to SOAS 
UTC/1996-025 Becker, Joe, Follow up response to WG2 N1326 re Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary 
N1353 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30 
N1420 Becker, Joe (1996-07-27), Conclusive Proposal for Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary, Update 
X3L2/96-119 N1485 Adams, Glenn (1996-12-01), Proposed Draft Amendment No. 10 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 
N1453 Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 
X3L2/96-123 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1996-12-18), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996 
L2/97-003 Paterson, Bruce (1997-01-28), Combined PDAM registration and ballot for FPDAM 10: Ethiopic script 
N1594 Summary of Voting/Table of Replies, Amendment 10 – Ethiopic, 1997-06-17 
L2/97-159 N1614 Resolving Japanese Comments on pDAM 10 [Ethiopic], 1997-07-01 
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 
L2/97-276 N1630 Report on JTC1/SC2 letter ballot on FPDAM No. 10 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (Ethiopic Script), 1997-12-01 
L2/98-018 Disposition of Comments Report on Document SC 2 N 2805, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 10: Ethioptic Script, 1998-01-14 
L2/98-316 Notices of publication for various amendments and standards 
L2/99-122 Clews, John (1999-03-31), Ordering labio-velar characters in Ethiopic 
L2/00-282 Everson, Michael (2000-08-25), Proposed glyph fixes for Ethiopic pages in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 
4.1 U+1207, 1247, 1287, 12AF, 12CF, 12EF, 130F, 131F, 1347, 135F..1360 11 UTC/1991-026 X3L2/91-024 Anderson, Lloyd (1991-02-26), On the Extended Ethiopic Alphabet 
L2/98-300 N1846 Everson, Michael; Yacob, Daniel (1998-09-11), Proposal to encode Ethiopic Extensions in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/04-143 N2747 Yacob, Daniel (2004-04-23), Revision of the N1846 Proposal to add Extended Ethiopic to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/04-265R N2814R Everson, Michael; Yacob, Daniel (2004-06-18), Revisions proposed to N2747 (Extended Ethiopic) 
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, "Change the general category from "So" to "Po" ... [U+1360]" 
6.0 U+135D..135E 2 L2/09-050R N3572 Priest, Lorna (2009-02-05), Proposal to Encode Additional Ethiopic Characters 
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
  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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