Ethiopic (Unicode block)

See also: Ethiopic Supplement (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended-A, and Ethiopic Extended-B

Short description: Unicode character block

Ethiopic

Range| U+1200..U+137F
(384 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Ethiopic
Major alphabets| Geʽez
Assigned| 358 code points
Unused| 26 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0| 345 (+345)
4.1| 356 (+11)
6.0| 358 (+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

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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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