Bassa Vah is a Unicode block containing characters of the Bassa Vah alphabet which were historically used for writing the Bassa language of Liberia and Sierra Leone.[3]
| Bassa Vah | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+16AD0..U+16AFF (48 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Bassa Vah |
| Major alphabets | Bassa |
| Assigned | 36 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 (2014) | 36 (+36) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| Bassa Vah[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+16ADx | 𖫐 | 𖫑 | 𖫒 | 𖫓 | 𖫔 | 𖫕 | 𖫖 | 𖫗 | 𖫘 | 𖫙 | 𖫚 | 𖫛 | 𖫜 | 𖫝 | 𖫞 | 𖫟 |
| U+16AEx | 𖫠 | 𖫡 | 𖫢 | 𖫣 | 𖫤 | 𖫥 | 𖫦 | 𖫧 | 𖫨 | 𖫩 | 𖫪 | 𖫫 | 𖫬 | 𖫭 | ||
| U+16AFx | 𖫰 | 𖫱 | 𖫲 | 𖫳 | 𖫴 | 𖫵 | ||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bassa Vah block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+16AD0..16AED, 16AF0..16AF5 | 36 | L2/09-327 | Riley, Charles (2009-03-20), Encoding of the Bassa Vah script in the UCS | |
| L2/10-030 | N3760 | Everson, Michael (2010-01-26), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-170 | N3839 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-05-08), Proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-217 | N3847 | Everson, Michael (2010-07-31), Revised proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-382R | N3941R | Everson, Michael (2010-10-06), Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C23", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-041R | N3991 | Riley, Charles (2011-02-14), Bassa Vah Comma | |||
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Bassa Vah Comma (C.17)", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C28", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP. | ||||
| N4103 | "T.5. Bassa Vah", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010-10-06). "N3941R: Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.