Meetei Mayek (Unicode block)

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)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+ABCx
U+ABDx
U+ABEx
U+ABFx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Meetei Mayek
RangeU+ABC0..U+ABFF
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsMeetei Mayek
Major alphabetsMeetei
Assigned56 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.256 (+56)
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+ABC0..ABED, ABF0..ABF956L2/99-245N2042Everson, Michael; McGowan, Rick (1999-07-20), Unicode Technical Report #3: Early Aramaic, Balti, Kirat (Limbu), Manipuri (Meitei) and Tai Lü scripts
L2/00-259Meetei Mayek script sample, 2000-08-09
L2/01-457Khumancha, Michael (2001-11-07), Letter from Michael Khumancha to UTC: "Meetei/Meitei mayek book and newspaper"
L2/06-308N3158Everson, Michael (2006-09-20), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meithei Mayek script in the BMP
L2/07-015Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Meitei Mayek (C.15)", UTC #110 Minutes
N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.6, M51.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.33", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-256Singh, L. S.; Singh, S. I. (2007-08-03), Views of Manipuri University on Meitei Script proposal
L2/07-005R2N3206R2Everson, Michael (2007-08-07), Proposal for encoding the Meitei Mayek script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-272Muller, Eric (2007-08-10), "3", Report of the South Asia subcommittee
L2/07-311N3327Anderson, Deborah (2007-09-10), Comments on Meitei Dandas
L2/08-136Singh, M. Chandramani (2008-03-05), Unicode for Meetei Script
L2/08-180N3470Updated proposal to encode Meetei Mayek in the UCS, 2008-04-24
L2/08-233Lata, Swaran (2008-04-29), Letter from Government of Manipur to Swaran Lata, Gov't of India
L2/08-218Muller, Eric (2008-05-12), "5", South Asia Subcommittee Report - Monday May 12, 2008
L2/08-221Lata, Swaran (2008-05-14), 7 scanned pages of pre-1980 Meetei Mayek
L2/08-242Moore, Lisa (2008-06-18), Letter from Lisa Moore to M. Chandramani Singh, Gov't of Manipur
L2/08-291Singh, L. Mahabir (2008-08-06), Proceeding of Meeting of Meetei Mayek Expert Committee Held on 17-07-2008
L2/08-317Muller, Eric (2008-08-11), "3", South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-232RN3473RProposed Encoding for Meetei Mayek Block, 2008-08-12
L2/08-239RN3478RProposed Encoding for Meetei Mayek Extended Block, 2008-08-12
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.6", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-253R2Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Meetei Mayek (B.15.2, E.3)", UTC #116 Minutes
L2/08-340Moore, Lisa (2008-09-11), Letter from Lisa Moore to L Mahabir Singh (Government of Manipur)
L2/08-161R2Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Meetei Mayek", UTC #115 Minutes
L2/08-412N3553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.02", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/09-234N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "10.24", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/13-072Jain, Manoj (2013-04-25), Letter from Rajendra Kumar to Mark Davis re Meetei Mayek encoding
L2/13-073Proceedings of the meeting of Language/Meetei Mayek Expert Committee held on 17/11/2012, 2013-04-26
L2/13-078Singh, H. Mathang (2013-04-26), Meetei Mayek in Unicode Standard (email)
L2/13-162Moore, Lisa (2013-07-24), Unicode Response on Meetei Mayek
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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