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

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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