Phoenician (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Phoenician

Range| U+10900..U+1091F
(32 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Phoenician
Assigned| 29 code points
Unused| 3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.0| 27 (+27)
5.2| 29 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down. (See PDF[|permanent dead link|dead link}}] summary.)

The Unicode block for Phoenician is U+10900–U+1091F. It is intended for the representation of text in Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic Phoenician, Phoenician, Early Aramaic, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyri, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite and Punic.[3]

The letters are encoded U+10900 𐤀 aleph through to U+10915 𐤕 taw, U+10916 𐤖, U+10917 𐤗, U+10918 𐤘 and U+10919 𐤙 encode the numerals 1, 10, 20, and 100, respectively, and U+1091F 𐤟 is the word separator.

## Characters

## History

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

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

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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
L2/99-013 | N1932 | Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS
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
L2/04-141R2 | N2746R2 | Everson, Michael (2004-05-29), Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS
L2/04-177 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2004-05-31), Expert Feedback on Phoenician
L2/04-178 | N2772 | Anderson, Deborah (2004-06-04), Additional Support for Phoenician
L2/04-181 |  | Keown, Elaine (2004-06-04), REBUTTAL to "Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS"
L2/04-190 | N2787 | Everson, Michael (2004-06-06), Additional examples of the Phoenician script in use
L2/04-187 |  | McGowan, Rick (2004-06-07), Phoenician Recommendation
L2/04-206 | N2793 | Kirk, Peter (2004-06-07), Response to the revised "Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script" (L2/04-141R2)
L2/04-213 |  | Rosenne, Jony (2004-06-07), Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items
L2/04-217R |  | Keown, Elaine (2004-06-07), Proposal to add Archaic Mediterranean Script block to ISO 10646
L2/04-226 |  | Durusau, Patrick (2004-06-07), Statement of the Society of Biblical Literature on WG2 N2746R2
L2/04-218 | N2792 | Snyder, Dean (2004-06-08), Response to the Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode
L2/05-009 | N2909 | Anderson, Deborah (2005-01-19), Letters in support of Phoenician
5.2 | U+1091A..1091B | 2 |  | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-206 | N3284 | Everson, Michael (2007-07-25), Proposal to add two numbers for the Phoenician script
L2/07-225 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 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/.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html.
3. ↑ "Middle-East scripts II: Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard: Version 13.0 – Core Specification. The Unicode Consortium. 2020. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch10.pdf. Retrieved 2021-01-28.

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