Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)

Psalter Pahlavi is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Middle Persian.[3] The script derives its name from the "Pahlavi Psalter", a 6th- or 7th-century translation of a Syriac book of psalms.

Psalter Pahlavi[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+10B8x 𐮀‎ 𐮁‎ 𐮂‎ 𐮃‎ 𐮄‎ 𐮅‎ 𐮆‎ 𐮇‎ 𐮈‎ 𐮉‎ 𐮊‎ 𐮋‎ 𐮌‎ 𐮍‎ 𐮎‎ 𐮏‎
U+10B9x 𐮐‎ 𐮑‎ 𐮙‎ 𐮚‎ 𐮛‎ 𐮜‎
U+10BAx 𐮩‎ 𐮪‎ 𐮫‎ 𐮬‎ 𐮭‎ 𐮮‎ 𐮯‎
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Psalter Pahlavi
RangeU+10B80..U+10BAF
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsPsalter Pahlavi
Major alphabetsPsalter Pahlavi
Assigned29 code points
Unused19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+10B80..10B91, 10B99..10B9C, 10BA9..10BAF29L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Pahlavi (Book-Pahlavi)", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-450Gippert, Jost (2002-11-29), 3rd Iranian Unicode Conference: Conference material (29-11-2002)
L2/02-449N2556Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS
L2/07-102N3241Everson, Michael (2007-04-12), Proposal for encoding the Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the BMP of the UCS
N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "8.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.8", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/07-207RN3286REverson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-08-24), Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-147N4040Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06), Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-261R2Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "C.3", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
L2/11-330N4181Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
N4253 (pdf, doc)"M59.07", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  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.
  3. Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
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