Old Sogdian (Unicode block)

See also: Sogdian (Unicode block)

Old Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters for a group of related, non-cursive Sogdian writing systems used to write historic Sogdian in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.^[3]

Old Sogdian
Range	U+10F00..U+10F2F (48 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Old Sogdian
Assigned	40 code points
Unused	8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)	40 (+40)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Old Sogdian[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+10F0x

𐼀‎

𐼁‎

𐼂‎

𐼃‎

𐼄‎

𐼅‎

𐼆‎

𐼇‎

𐼈‎

𐼉‎

𐼊‎

𐼋‎

𐼌‎

𐼍‎

𐼎‎

𐼏‎

U+10F1x

𐼐‎

𐼑‎

𐼒‎

𐼓‎

𐼔‎

𐼕‎

𐼖‎

𐼗‎

𐼘‎

𐼙‎

𐼚‎

𐼛‎

𐼜‎

𐼝‎

𐼞‎

𐼟‎

U+10F2x

𐼠‎

𐼡‎

𐼢‎

𐼣‎

𐼤‎

𐼥‎

𐼦‎

𐼧‎

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 Old Sogdian block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
11.0	U+10F00..10F27	40	L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
			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
			L2/02-009		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
			L2/15-149		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-089R		Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script
			L2/16-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-312R	N4814	Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script
			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), "13. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-016		Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", UTC #150 Minutes
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", UTC #153 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Font

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