Sogdian (Unicode block)
# Sogdian (Unicode block)

Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.

## Block

Sogdian Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U+10F3x | 𐼰‎ | 𐼱‎ | 𐼲‎ | 𐼳‎ | 𐼴‎ | 𐼵‎ | 𐼶‎ | 𐼷‎ | 𐼸‎ | 𐼹‎ | 𐼺‎ | 𐼻‎ | 𐼼‎ | 𐼽‎ | 𐼾‎ | 𐼿‎ |
| U+10F4x | 𐽀‎ | 𐽁‎ | 𐽂‎ | 𐽃‎ | 𐽄‎ | 𐽅‎ | 𐽆‎ | 𐽇‎ | 𐽈‎ | 𐽉‎ | 𐽊‎ | 𐽋‎ | 𐽌‎ | 𐽍‎ | 𐽎‎ | 𐽏‎ |
| U+10F5x | 𐽐‎ | 𐽑‎ | 𐽒‎ | 𐽓‎ | 𐽔‎ | 𐽕‎ | 𐽖‎ | 𐽗‎ | 𐽘‎ | 𐽙‎ | | | | | | |
| U+10F6x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 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 Sogdian block:

| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/00-128 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/01-007 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/02-009 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/16-158 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/16-216 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/17-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/17-016 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/16-371R2 | N4815 | Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | L2/18-115 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes |
| 11.0 | U+10F30..10F59 | 42 | | N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||

## Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - Noto Sans Sogdian.

