Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)

Psalter Pahlavi
Psalter Pahlavi
Range	U+10B80..U+10BAF; (48 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Psalter Pahlavi
Major alphabets	Psalter Pahlavi
Assigned	29 code points
Unused	19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

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)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
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 16.0 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 Psalter Pahlavi block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+10B80..10B91, 10B99..10B9C, 10BA9..10BAF	29	L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
			L2/01-007		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Pahlavi (Book-Pahlavi)", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
			L2/02-450		Gippert, Jost (2002-11-29), 3rd Iranian Unicode Conference: Conference material (29-11-2002)
			L2/02-449	N2556	Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS
			L2/07-102	N3241	Everson, 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
			L2/07-268	N3253 (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
			L2/07-225		Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.8", UTC #112 Minutes
			L2/07-207R	N3286R	Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-08-24), Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/11-147	N4040	Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06), Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "C.3", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
			L2/11-330	N4181	Anderson, 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
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "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; 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.

[final-4] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[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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