Bamum (Unicode block)

See also: Bamum Supplement (Unicode block)
Bamum
RangeU+A6A0..U+A6FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBamum
Major alphabetsBamum
Assigned88 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)88 (+88)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies (stages A–F) are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.

Bamum[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+A6Ax ꚠ ꚡ ꚢ ꚣ ꚤ ꚥ ꚦ ꚧ ꚨ ꚩ ꚪ ꚫ ꚬ ꚭ ꚮ ꚯ
U+A6Bx ꚰ ꚱ ꚲ ꚳ ꚴ ꚵ ꚶ ꚷ ꚸ ꚹ ꚺ ꚻ ꚼ ꚽ ꚾ ꚿ
U+A6Cx ꛀ ꛁ ꛂ ꛃ ꛄ ꛅ ꛆ ꛇ ꛈ ꛉ ꛊ ꛋ ꛌ ꛍ ꛎ ꛏ
U+A6Dx ꛐ ꛑ ꛒ ꛓ ꛔ ꛕ ꛖ ꛗ ꛘ ꛙ ꛚ ꛛ ꛜ ꛝ ꛞ ꛟ
U+A6Ex ꛠ ꛡ ꛢ ꛣ ꛤ ꛥ ꛦ ꛧ ꛨ ꛩ ꛪ ꛫ ꛬ ꛭ ꛮ ꛯ
U+A6Fx ꛰ ꛱ ꛲ ꛳ ꛴ ꛵ ꛶ ꛷
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+A6A0..A6F7 88 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
L2/07-015 Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Bamum (C.8)", UTC #110 Minutes
L2/07-105 N3213 Freytag, Asmus (2007-02-23), Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum
L2/07-024R N3209R Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2007-03-21), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bamum script in the BMP
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-118R2 Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-239 N3298 Anderson, Deborah (2007-07-30), Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.18", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/08-350 N3522 Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2008-10-14), Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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