Adlam (Unicode block)

Adlam is a Unicode block containing characters from the Adlam alphabet, an alphabetic script devised during the late 1980s for writing the Fula language in Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia and other nearby countries.

The proposal was authored by Michael Everson.^[3] In October 2017, Google released a Noto font that supports the block, Noto Sans Adlam.^[4]

Adlam^[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+1E90x	𞤀	𞤁	𞤂	𞤃	𞤄	𞤅	𞤆	𞤇	𞤈	𞤉	𞤊	𞤋	𞤌	𞤍	𞤎	𞤏
U+1E91x	𞤐	𞤑	𞤒	𞤓	𞤔	𞤕	𞤖	𞤗	𞤘	𞤙	𞤚	𞤛	𞤜	𞤝	𞤞	𞤟
U+1E92x	𞤠	𞤡	𞤢	𞤣	𞤤	𞤥	𞤦	𞤧	𞤨	𞤩	𞤪	𞤫	𞤬	𞤭	𞤮	𞤯
U+1E93x	𞤰	𞤱	𞤲	𞤳	𞤴	𞤵	𞤶	𞤷	𞤸	𞤹	𞤺	𞤻	𞤼	𞤽	𞤾	𞤿
U+1E94x	𞥀	𞥁	𞥂	𞥃	𞥄	𞥅	𞥆	𞥇	𞥈	𞥉	𞥊	𞥋
U+1E95x	𞥐	𞥑	𞥒	𞥓	𞥔	𞥕	𞥖	𞥗	𞥘	𞥙					𞥞	𞥟
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 Adlam block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
9.0	U+1E900..1E94A, 1E950..1E959, 1E95E..1E95F	87	L2/13-191	N4488	Everson, Michael (2013-10-28), Preliminary proposal to encode the Adlam script in the SMP of the UCS
9.0	U+1E900..1E94A, 1E950..1E959, 1E95E..1E95F	87	L2/14-219	N4628	Everson, Michael (2014-09-23), Proposal for encoding the Adlam script in the SMP of the UCS
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names