Caucasian Albanian (Unicode block) explained

Blockname:Caucasian Albanian
Rangestart:10530
Rangeend:1056F
Script1:Caucasian Albanian
Alphabets:Caucasian Albanian
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Note:[1] [2]

Caucasian Albanian is a Unicode block containing characters used by the Caucasian Albanian peoples of Azerbaijan and Dagestan for writing Northeast Caucasian languages.[3]

Typefaces supporting this script include such as Arian AMU[hy], Noto Sans Caucasian Albanian and Unifont Upper. Recent versions of Windows also support Calibri and Microsoft Sans Serif.

History

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  3. Web site: N4131R: Proposal for encoding the Caucasian Albanian script in the SMP of the UCS . Michael . Everson . Jost . Gippert . Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 . 2011-10-28 .