Ugaritic (Unicode block)

Ugaritic
Range U+10380..U+1039F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Ugaritic
Major alphabets Ugaritic
Hurrian
Assigned 31 code points
Unused 1 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 31 (+31)
Note: [1][2]

Ugaritic is a Unicode block containing cuneiform alphabetic characters for writing the Ugaritic and Hurrian languages of the Ugarit city-state from the 15th-12th centuries BCE.

Some of the Unicode character names are reconstructions, and as such are not found in Ugaritic source texts.[3]

Ugaritic[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+1038x 𐎀 𐎁 𐎂 𐎃 𐎄 𐎅 𐎆 𐎇 𐎈 𐎉 𐎊 𐎋 𐎌 𐎍 𐎎 𐎏
U+1039x 𐎐 𐎑 𐎒 𐎓 𐎔 𐎕 𐎖 𐎗 𐎘 𐎙 𐎚 𐎛 𐎜 𐎝 𐎟
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey area indicates non-assigned code point

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.0U+10380..1039D, 1039F31L2/97-270N1640Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Ugaritic Cuneiform, Plane 1
L2/01-141N2338Everson, Michael (2001-04-01), Proposal to encode Ugaritic in the UCS
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ↑ "Ancient and Historic Scripts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
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