Sogdian (Unicode block)

Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.[3]

See also: Old Sogdian (Unicode block)
Sogdian
RangeU+10F30..U+10F6F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsSogdian
Assigned42 code points
Unused22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)42 (+42)
Unicode documentation
Code chartβ€ƒβˆ£β€ƒWeb page
Note: [1][2]

Block
Sogdian[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+10F3x πΌ°β€Ž πΌ±β€Ž πΌ²β€Ž πΌ³β€Ž πΌ΄β€Ž πΌ΅β€Ž πΌΆβ€Ž πΌ·β€Ž πΌΈβ€Ž πΌΉβ€Ž πΌΊβ€Ž πΌ»β€Ž πΌΌβ€Ž πΌ½β€Ž πΌΎβ€Ž πΌΏβ€Ž
U+10F4x π½€β€Ž π½β€Ž π½‚β€Ž π½ƒβ€Ž π½„β€Ž π½…β€Ž π½†β€Ž π½‡β€Ž π½ˆβ€Ž π½‰β€Ž π½Šβ€Ž π½‹β€Ž π½Œβ€Ž π½β€Ž π½Žβ€Ž π½β€Ž
U+10F5x π½β€Ž π½‘β€Ž π½’β€Ž π½“β€Ž π½”β€Ž π½•β€Ž π½–β€Ž π½—β€Ž π½˜β€Ž π½™β€Ž
U+10F6x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
11.0U+10F30..10F5942L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/16-158Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode
L2/16-216Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, LaurenΘ›iu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, LaurenΘ›iu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/16-371R2N4815Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script
L2/18-115Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - Noto Sans Sogdian.

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. "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1.
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