Meetei Mayek (Unicode block)

See also: Meetei Mayek Extensions (Unicode block)

Meetei Mayek
RangeU+ABC0..U+ABFF
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsMeetei Mayek
Major alphabetsMeetei
Assigned56 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)56 (+56)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Meetei Mayek is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Meitei language of Manipur, India.

Meetei Mayek[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+ABCx ꯀ ꯁ ꯂ ꯃ ꯄ ꯅ ꯆ ꯇ ꯈ ꯉ ꯊ ꯋ ꯌ ꯍ ꯎ ꯏ
U+ABDx ꯐ ꯑ ꯒ ꯓ ꯔ ꯕ ꯖ ꯗ ꯘ ꯙ ꯚ ꯛ ꯜ ꯝ ꯞ ꯟ
U+ABEx ꯠ ꯡ ꯢ ꯣ ꯤ ꯥ ꯦ ꯧ ꯨ ꯩ ꯪ ꯫ ꯬ ꯭
U+ABFx ꯰ ꯱ ꯲ ꯳ ꯴ ꯵ ꯶ ꯷ ꯸ ꯹
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 Meetei Mayek block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+ABC0..ABED, ABF0..ABF9 56 L2/99-245 N2042 Everson, Michael; McGowan, Rick (20 July 1999), Unicode Technical Report #3: Early Aramaic, Balti, Kirat (Limbu), Manipuri (Meitei) and Tai Lü scripts
L2/00-259 Meetei Mayek script sample, 9 August 2000
L2/01-457 Khumancha, Michael (7 November 2001), Letter from Michael Khumancha to UTC: "Meetei/Meitei mayek book and newspaper"
L2/06-308 N3158 Everson, Michael (20 September 2006), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meithei Mayek script in the BMP
L2/07-015 Moore, Lisa (8 February 2007), "Meitei Mayek (C.15)", UTC #110 Minutes
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (10 October 2007), "M51.6, M51.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (26 July 2007), "M50.33", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-256 Singh, L. S.; Singh, S. I. (3 August 2007), Views of Manipuri University on Meitei Script proposal
L2/07-005R2 N3206R2 Everson, Michael (7 August 2007), Proposal for encoding the Meitei Mayek script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-272 Muller, Eric (10 August 2007), "3", Report of the South Asia subcommittee
L2/07-311 N3327 Anderson, Deborah (10 September 2007), Comments on Meitei Dandas
L2/08-136 Singh, M. Chandramani (5 March 2008), Unicode for Meetei Script
L2/08-180 N3470 Updated proposal to encode Meetei Mayek in the UCS, 24 April 2008
L2/08-233 Lata, Swaran (29 April 2008), Letter from Government of Manipur to Swaran Lata, Gov't of India
L2/08-218 Muller, Eric (12 May 2008), "5", South Asia Subcommittee Report - Monday May 12, 2008
L2/08-221 Lata, Swaran (14 May 2008), 7 scanned pages of pre-1980 Meetei Mayek
L2/08-242 Moore, Lisa (18 June 2008), Letter from Lisa Moore to M. Chandramani Singh, Gov't of Manipur
L2/08-291 Singh, L. Mahabir (6 August 2008), Proceeding of Meeting of Meetei Mayek Expert Committee Held on 17-07-2008
L2/08-317 Muller, Eric (11 August 2008), "3", South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-232R N3473R Proposed Encoding for Meetei Mayek Block, 12 August 2008
L2/08-239R N3478R Proposed Encoding for Meetei Mayek Extended Block, 12 August 2008
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 August 2008), "M52.6", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-253R2 Moore, Lisa (19 August 2008), "Meetei Mayek (B.15.2, E.3)", UTC #116 Minutes
L2/08-340 Moore, Lisa (11 September 2008), Letter from Lisa Moore to L Mahabir Singh (Government of Manipur)
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (5 November 2008), "Meetei Mayek", UTC #115 Minutes
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (5 November 2008), "M53.02", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (8 July 2009), "10.24", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
N3703 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 April 2010), "M55.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/13-072 Jain, Manoj (25 April 2013), Letter from Rajendra Kumar to Mark Davis re Meetei Mayek encoding
L2/13-073 Proceedings of the meeting of Language/Meetei Mayek Expert Committee held on 17/11/2012, 26 April 2013
L2/13-078 Singh, H. Mathang (26 April 2013), Meetei Mayek in Unicode Standard (email)
L2/13-162 Moore, Lisa (24 July 2013), Unicode Response on Meetei Mayek
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.