Ugaritic (Unicode block)

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.

Ugaritic
RangeU+10380..U+1039F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsUgaritic
Major alphabetsUgaritic
Hurrian
Assigned31 code points
Unused1 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.031 (+31)
Note: [1][2]

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)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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 13.0
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
L2/98-070Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item d. Ugaritic Cuneiform", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286N1703Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-141N2338Everson, Michael (2001-04-01), Proposal to encode Ugaritic in the UCS
L2/01-184RMoore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M7", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting
L2/01-344N2353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "8.6 Ugaritic", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
  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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