Old South Arabian (Unicode block)

See also: Old North Arabian (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Old South Arabian

Range| U+10A60..U+10A7F
(32 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Old South Arabian
Major alphabets| Minean
Sabaean
Qatabanian
Hadramite
Himyaritic
Assigned| 32 code points
Unused| 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2| 32 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.

U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.[3]

## History

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

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

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L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-224 | N2097, N2025-2 | Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
| N2133 |  Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
| N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-240 | N3309 | Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script
L2/07-287 | N3296 | Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/08-044 | N3395 | Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script
L2/08-003 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-348 | N3517 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034
L2/08-161R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes, "Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly."
L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/08-361 |  | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), UTC #117 Minutes
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, "Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]"

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.
3. ↑ Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal. "N3395: Proposal to encode Old South Arabian script". http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3395.pdf. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

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