Ahom (Unicode block)

Ahom is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Ahom alphabet, which was used to write the Ahom language spoken by the Ahom people in Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.^[3]

Ahom
Range	U+11700..U+1174F (80 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Ahom
Major alphabets	Ahom
Assigned	65 code points
Unused	15 reserved code points
Unicode version history
8.0 (2015)	57 (+57)
11.0 (2018)	58 (+1)
14.0 (2021)	65 (+7)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: The Ahom block was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode 14.0.[1][2]

The block size was expanded by 16 code points in Unicode version 14.0 (version 13: 1173F → version 14: 1174F), and 7 more characters were defined.^[4] This was the first block to expanded since Unicode version 1.1.

Ahom[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1170x

𑜀

𑜁

𑜂

𑜃

𑜄

𑜅

𑜆

𑜇

𑜈

𑜉

𑜊

𑜋

𑜌

𑜍

𑜎

𑜏

U+1171x

𑜐

𑜑

𑜒

𑜓

𑜔

𑜕

𑜖

𑜗

𑜘

𑜙

𑜚

𑜝

𑜞

𑜟

U+1172x

𑜠

𑜡

𑜢

𑜣

𑜤

𑜥

𑜦

𑜧

𑜨

𑜩

𑜪

𑜫

U+1173x

𑜰

𑜱

𑜲

𑜳

𑜴

𑜵

𑜶

𑜷

𑜸

𑜹

𑜺

𑜻

𑜼

𑜽

𑜾

𑜿

U+1174x

𑝀

𑝁

𑝂

𑝃

𑝄

𑝅

𑝆

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 Ahom block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
8.0	U+11700..11719, 1171D..1172B, 11730..1173F	57	L2/10-359	N3928	Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2010-09-17), Preliminary Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/12-222	N4290	Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2012-07-02), Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/12-267		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "V. AHOM", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-309R	N4321R	Hosken, Martin (2012-10-23), Revised Proposal to add the Ahom Script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C16", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.09", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/21-123		Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C3", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168, Remove the assignment of GCB=SpacingMark for U+11720..U+11721 AHOM VOWEL SIGN A and AA, letting them default to GCB=Other, for Unicode version 14.0.
11.0	U+1171A	1	L2/15-272		Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2015-10-26), Proposal to add one extra character to the Ahom Block
			L2/15-254		Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.13", UTC #145 Minutes
14.0	U+11740..11746	7	L2/20-258		Morey, Stephen (2020-09-29), Proposal to encode additional signs for the Tai Ahom script
			L2/20-250		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "9. Ahom", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
			L2/20-237		Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C17", UTC #165 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names