Batak is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Batak dialects of Karo, Mandailing, Pakpak, Simalungun, and Toba.[3]
| Batak | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1BC0..U+1BFF (64 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Batak |
| Major alphabets | Karo Mandailing Pakpak Simalungun Toba |
| Assigned | 56 code points |
| Unused | 8 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 (2010) | 56 (+56) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| Batak[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+1BCx | ᯀ | ᯁ | ᯂ | ᯃ | ᯄ | ᯅ | ᯆ | ᯇ | ᯈ | ᯉ | ᯊ | ᯋ | ᯌ | ᯍ | ᯎ | ᯏ |
| U+1BDx | ᯐ | ᯑ | ᯒ | ᯓ | ᯔ | ᯕ | ᯖ | ᯗ | ᯘ | ᯙ | ᯚ | ᯛ | ᯜ | ᯝ | ᯞ | ᯟ |
| U+1BEx | ᯠ | ᯡ | ᯢ | ᯣ | ᯤ | ᯥ | ᯦ | ᯧ | ᯨ | ᯩ | ᯪ | ᯫ | ᯬ | ᯭ | ᯮ | ᯯ |
| U+1BFx | ᯰ | ᯱ | ᯲ | ᯳ | ᯼ | ᯽ | ᯾ | ᯿ | ||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Batak block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+1BC0..1BF3, 1BFC..1BFF | 56 | L2/99-066 | Everson, Michael (1999-02-11), Batak script [preliminary chart] | |
| L2/07-233R | N3293R | Everson, Michael (2007-07-26), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Batak script in the UCS | |||
| L2/08-147 | N3446 | McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2008-04-14), Discussion of Batak Vowel Ordering | |||
| L2/08-274 | N3489 | Everson, Michael; Kozok, Uli (2008-08-04), On the inputting model for Batak | |||
| L2/08-312 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-08-11), Batak Input | ||||
| L2/08-011R | N3320R | Everson, Michael; Kozok, Uli (2008-10-07), Proposal for encoding the Batak script in the UCS | |||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.21", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
| L2/09-063 | Anderson, Deborah (2009-01-29), Dialect‐Specific Characters in Batak (Batak proposal: L2/08‐011 WG2 N3320R) | ||||
| L2/09-104 | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C23", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | "Resolution: M58.02", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Everson, Michael; Kozok, Uli (2008-10-07). "Proposal for encoding the Batak script in the UCS" (PDF).