Ugaritic (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Ugaritic
RangeU+10380..U+1039F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsUgaritic
Major alphabetsUgaritic
Hurrian
Assigned31 code points
Unused1 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.031 (+31)
Note: [1][2]

Ugaritic is a Unicode block containing cuneiform alphabetic characters for writing the Ugaritic and Hurrian languages of the Ugarit city-state from the 15th-12th centuries BCE.

Some of the Unicode character names are reconstructions, and as such are not found in Ugaritic source texts.[3]


History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ugaritic block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 
L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/01-141 N2338 Everson, Michael (2001-04-01), Proposal to encode Ugaritic in the UCS 
L2/01-184R Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting 
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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