Bamum (Unicode block)

See also: Bamum Supplement (Unicode block)

Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies (stages A–F) are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.

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

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1

2

3

4

5

6

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8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+A6Ax

ꚠ

ꚡ

ꚢ

ꚣ

ꚤ

ꚥ

ꚦ

ꚧ

ꚨ

ꚩ

ꚪ

ꚫ

ꚬ

ꚭ

ꚮ

ꚯ

U+A6Bx

ꚰ

ꚱ

ꚲ

ꚳ

ꚴ

ꚵ

ꚶ

ꚷ

ꚸ

ꚹ

ꚺ

ꚻ

ꚼ

ꚽ

ꚾ

ꚿ

U+A6Cx

ꛀ

ꛁ

ꛂ

ꛃ

ꛄ

ꛅ

ꛆ

ꛇ

ꛈ

ꛉ

ꛊ

ꛋ

ꛌ

ꛍ

ꛎ

ꛏ

U+A6Dx

ꛐ

ꛑ

ꛒ

ꛓ

ꛔ

ꛕ

ꛖ

ꛗ

ꛘ

ꛙ

ꛚ

ꛛ

ꛜ

ꛝ

ꛞ

ꛟ

U+A6Ex

ꛠ

ꛡ

ꛢ

ꛣ

ꛤ

ꛥ

ꛦ

ꛧ

ꛨ

ꛩ

ꛪ

ꛫ

ꛬ

ꛭ

ꛮ

ꛯ

U+A6Fx

꛰

꛱

꛲

꛳

꛴

꛵

꛶

꛷

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Bamum
Range	U+A6A0..U+A6FF (96 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Bamum
Major alphabets	Bamum
Assigned	88 code points
Unused	8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	88 (+88)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

History

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

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+A6A0..A6F7	88	L2/06-313		Riley, Charles (2006-09-21), Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon
			L2/07-023		Riley, Charles (2007-01-19), Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS
			L2/07-015		Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Bamum (C.8)", UTC #110 Minutes
			L2/07-105	N3213	Freytag, Asmus (2007-02-23), Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum
			L2/07-024R	N3209R	Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2007-03-21), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bamum script in the BMP
				N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-239	N3298	Anderson, Deborah (2007-07-30), Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5
			L2/07-225		Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.18", UTC #112 Minutes
			L2/08-350	N3522	Everson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Tuchscherer, Konrad (2008-10-14), Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP
			L2/08-412	N3553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.