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Armenian (Unicode block)

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Armenian
RangeU+0530..U+058F
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArmenian (88 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabetsClassical Armenian (Grabar)
Western Armenian
Eastern (Reformed) Armenian
Assigned90 code points
Unused6 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)84 (+84)
1.1 (1993)85 (+1)
3.0 (1999)86 (+1)
6.1 (2012)87 (+1)
7.0 (2014)89 (+2)
11.0 (2018)90 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2] Template:Contains Armenian text

Armenian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Armenian language, both the traditional Western Armenian and reformed Eastern Armenian orthographies. Five Armenian ligatures are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block.


Armenian[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+053x Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը Թ Ժ Ի Լ Խ Ծ Կ
U+054x Հ Ձ Ղ Ճ Մ Յ Ն Շ Ո Չ Պ Ջ Ռ Ս Վ Տ
U+055x Ր Ց Ւ Փ Ք Օ Ֆ ՙ ՚ ՛ ՜ ՝ ՞ ՟
U+056x ՠ ա բ գ դ ե զ է ը թ ժ ի լ խ ծ կ
U+057x հ ձ ղ ճ մ յ ն շ ո չ պ ջ ռ ս վ տ
U+058x ր ց ւ փ ք օ ֆ և ֈ ։ ֊ ֍ ֎ ֏
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 Armenian block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0531..0556, 0559..055F, 0561..0586, 0589 84 (to be determined)
1.1 U+0587 1 (to be determined)
3.0 U+058A 1 (to be determined)
6.1 U+058F 1 L2/10-008R N3771 Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol
7.0 U+058D..058E 2 L2/98-426 N1981 Armenian Comments on SC 2 N 3134, Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, 1998-12-16
L2/99-047 N1984 Suignard, Michel (1999-02-05), Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO/IEC 10646, answer to SC2 N3222
L2/10-133 N3824 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4125, ISO/IEC FCD 10646, 2010-04-19
L2/10-354 N3924 Everson, Michael (2010-09-24), Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian
L2/10-372 N3921 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4146, ISO/IEC CD 10646 (3rd Ed.), 2010-09-24
L2/10-373 N3923 Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-24), Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to 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.