Bamum (Unicode block)
# Bamum (Unicode block)

Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies (stages A–F) are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.

Bamum Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U+A6Ax | ꚠ | ꚡ | ꚢ | ꚣ | ꚤ | ꚥ | ꚦ | ꚧ | ꚨ | ꚩ | ꚪ | ꚫ | ꚬ | ꚭ | ꚮ | ꚯ |
| U+A6Bx | ꚰ | ꚱ | ꚲ | ꚳ | ꚴ | ꚵ | ꚶ | ꚷ | ꚸ | ꚹ | ꚺ | ꚻ | ꚼ | ꚽ | ꚾ | ꚿ |
| U+A6Cx | ꛀ | ꛁ | ꛂ | ꛃ | ꛄ | ꛅ | ꛆ | ꛇ | ꛈ | ꛉ | ꛊ | ꛋ | ꛌ | ꛍ | ꛎ | ꛏ |
| U+A6Dx | ꛐ | ꛑ | ꛒ | ꛓ | ꛔ | ꛕ | ꛖ | ꛗ | ꛘ | ꛙ | ꛚ | ꛛ | ꛜ | ꛝ | ꛞ | ꛟ |
| U+A6Ex | ꛠ | ꛡ | ꛢ | ꛣ | ꛤ | ꛥ | ꛦ | ꛧ | ꛨ | ꛩ | ꛪ | ꛫ | ꛬ | ꛭ | ꛮ | ꛯ |
| U+A6Fx | ꛰ | ꛱ | ꛲ | ꛳ | ꛴ | ꛵ | ꛶ | ꛷ | | | | | | | | |
| 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 Bamum block:

| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/06-313 | | Riley, Charles (2006-09-21), Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-023 | | Riley, Charles (2007-01-19), Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-015 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Bamum (C.8)", UTC #110 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-105 | N3213 | Freytag, Asmus (2007-02-23), Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-024R | N3209R | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2007-03-21), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bamum script in the BMP |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-118R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-239 | N3298 | Anderson, Deborah (2007-07-30), Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5 |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/07-225 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.18", UTC #112 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/08-350 | N3522 | Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2008-10-14), Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP |
| 5.2 | U+A6A0..A6F7 | 88 | L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||
