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Ugaritic (Unicode block)

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Ugaritic
RangeU+10380..U+1039F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsUgaritic
Major alphabetsUgaritic
Hurrian
Assigned31 code points
Unused1 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 (2003)31 (+31)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

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.

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)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
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 15.1
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:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.0 U+10380..1039D, 1039F 31 L2/97-270 N1640 Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Ugaritic Cuneiform, Plane 1
L2/01-141 N2338 Everson, Michael (2001-04-01), Proposal to encode Ugaritic in the UCS
  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.