Ethiopic Extended-A

See also: Ethiopic (Unicode block), Ethiopic Supplement (Unicode block), Ethiopic Extended (Unicode block), and Ethiopic Extended-B

Ethiopic Extended-A is a Unicode block containing Geʽez characters for the Gamo-Gofa-Dawro, Basketo, and Gumuz languages of Ethiopia.

Ethiopic Extended-A
Range	U+AB00..U+AB2F (48 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Ethiopic
Major alphabets	Gamo-Gofa-Dawro Basketo Gumuz
Assigned	32 code points
Unused	16 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)	32 (+32)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Ethiopic Extended-A[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+AB0x

ꬁ

ꬂ

ꬃ

ꬄ

ꬅ

ꬆ

ꬉ

ꬊ

ꬋ

ꬌ

ꬍ

ꬎ

U+AB1x

ꬑ

ꬒ

ꬓ

ꬔ

ꬕ

ꬖ

U+AB2x

ꬠ

ꬡ

ꬢ

ꬣ

ꬤ

ꬥ

ꬦ

ꬨ

ꬩ

ꬪ

ꬫ

ꬬ

ꬭ

ꬮ

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 Ethiopic Extended-A block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
6.0	U+AB01..AB06, AB09..AB0E, AB11..AB16, AB20..AB26, AB28..AB2E	32	L2/09-050R	N3572	Priest, Lorna (2009-02-05), Proposal to Encode Additional Ethiopic Characters
			L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.16", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.11", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
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.