Newa (Unicode block)

Newa
Range U+11400..U+1147F
(128 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Newa
Assigned 93 code points
Unused 35 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.0 92 (+92)
11.0 93 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Newa is a Unicode block containing characters from the Newa alphabet, which is used to write Nepal Bhasa and Sanskrit.

Newa[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1140x ๐‘€ ๐‘ ๐‘‚ ๐‘ƒ ๐‘„ ๐‘… ๐‘† ๐‘‡ ๐‘ˆ ๐‘‰ ๐‘Š ๐‘‹ ๐‘Œ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž ๐‘
U+1141x ๐‘ ๐‘‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘“ ๐‘” ๐‘• ๐‘– ๐‘— ๐‘˜ ๐‘™ ๐‘š ๐‘› ๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘ž ๐‘Ÿ
U+1142x ๐‘  ๐‘ก ๐‘ข ๐‘ฃ ๐‘ค ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ง ๐‘จ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ช ๐‘ซ ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ญ ๐‘ฎ ๐‘ฏ
U+1143x ๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฑ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ณ ๐‘ด ๐‘ต ๐‘ถ ๐‘ท ๐‘ธ ๐‘น ๐‘บ ๐‘ป ๐‘ผ ๐‘ฝ ๐‘พ ๐‘ฟ
U+1144x ๐‘‘€ ๐‘‘ ๐‘‘‚ ๐‘‘ƒ ๐‘‘„ ๐‘‘… ๐‘‘† ๐‘‘‡ ๐‘‘ˆ ๐‘‘‰ ๐‘‘Š ๐‘‘‹ ๐‘‘Œ ๐‘‘ ๐‘‘Ž ๐‘‘
U+1145x ๐‘‘ ๐‘‘‘ ๐‘‘’ ๐‘‘“ ๐‘‘” ๐‘‘• ๐‘‘– ๐‘‘— ๐‘‘˜ ๐‘‘™ ๐‘‘› ๐‘‘ ๐‘‘ž
U+1146x
U+1147x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

A Unicode character set was initially proposed in May 2011.[3] A previous tentative mapping of the first SMP also included the script[4] and later versions include the proposal.[5] A revised proposal[6] using the name "Newar" is reflected in the roadmap from 6.0.12.[7] This revised proposal was "to enable the broadest representation of the Newar script, from the historical forms of Old Newar manuscripts to the present style of 'Prachalit' known as 'Nepal Lipi'".[6] An alternative proposal was produced by a group of Newars in Kathmandu led by Devdass Manandhar supported by the linguist Tej Ratna Kansakar, which differed in a number of ways from the Pandey proposals, the most significant being the inclusion of a number of breathy (nasalised) consonants which had historically been written with a grapheme that could be mistaken for a conjunct but written the wrong way round.[8]

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
9.0U+11400..11459, 1145B, 1145D92L2/09-325N3692Everson, Michael (2009-09-28), Roadmapping the scripts of Nepal
L2/11-152N4038Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-05), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Prachalit Nepal Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-120N4322Manandhar, Dev Dass; Karmacharya, Samir; Chitrakar, Bishnu (2012-02-05), Proposal for the Nepฤlalipi script in the UCS
L2/12-003RN4184Pandey, Anshuman (2012-02-29), Proposal to encode the Newar Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-200RWhistler, Ken (2012-06-04), On the encoding of the โ€œNepaalalipiโ€ / โ€œNewarโ€ script
L2/12-244Manandhar, Dev Dass (2012-07-21), Response to L2/12-200 โ€œOn the encoding of the โ€˜Nepaalalipiโ€™ / โ€˜Newarโ€™ scriptโ€
L2/12-245Manandhar, Dev Dass (2012-07-21), Ancillary materials on โ€œbreathy consonantsโ€ in โ€œNepaalalipiโ€
L2/12-365N4347Hall, Pat (2012-10-08), Proposal to Encode Nepal Himalayish Scripts in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-336N4372Sinclair, Iain (2012-10-22), Letter in support of N4184 and encoding the Newar script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/12-349Manandhar, Dev Dass; Karmacharya, Samir; Chitrakar, Bishnu (2012-10-29), Proposal for the Nepaalalipi script in the UCS
L2/12-390Anderson, Deborah (2012-11-08), Comparison between Newar and Nepaalalipi proposals (L2/12-003 and L2/12-349)
L2/13-029Manandhar, Dev Dass; Chitrakar, Bishnu; Karmacharya, Samir (2013-01-28), To Unicode Technical Committee (UTC)
L2/14-086Manandhar, Dev Dass; Karmacharya, Samir; Chitrakar, Bishnu (2014-04-10), Proposal to Encode Nepaalalipi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/14-220Anderson, Deborah (2014-09-23), Comparison between Newar and Nepaalalipi proposals (L2/12-003 and L2/14-086)
L2/14-253Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-06), Recommendations to UTC from Script Meeting in Nepal
L2/14-258N4602Pandey, Anshuman (2014-10-22), Response to the Recommendation for Nepalese Scripts in L2/14-253
L2/14-281Whistler, Ken (2014-10-27), Rationale for Atomic Encoding of Murmured Resonants in Newa
L2/14-290N4552Pandey, Anshuman (2014-10-28), Specimen Showing Representation of Murmured Consonants in the Newar Script
L2/14-285R3Whistler, Ken (2014-12-04), Towards a Consensus Encoding of Newa
11.0U+1145E1L2/16-383N4816A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-12-23), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Newa
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu; Moore, Lisa; Hai, Liang; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "9. Newa", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.1", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-130Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes
  1. โ†‘ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. โ†‘ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. โ†‘ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. โ†‘ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-03). "N4038: Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Prachalit Nepal Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  4. โ†‘ Michael Everson; Rick McGowan; Ken Whistler (2009-04-24). "Roadmap to the SMP, Revision 5.1.5". Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  5. โ†‘ Michael Everson; Rick McGowan; Ken Whistler; V.S. Umamaheswaran (2011-11-28). "Roadmap to the SMP, Revision 6.0.11". Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  6. 1 2 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-02-29). "N4184: Proposal to Encode the Newar Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  7. โ†‘ Michael Everson; Rick McGowan; Ken Whistler; V.S. Umamaheswaran (2012-01-06). "Roadmap to the SMP, Revision 6.0.12". Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  8. โ†‘ Dev Dass Manandhar; Samir Karmacharya; Bishnu Chitrakar (2012-02-05). "N4322: Proposal for the Nepฤlalipi Script in the Universal Character Set for inclusion in the Unicode Standard" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-24.
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