Bamum (Unicode block)
{{also|Bamum Supplement|l1=Bamum Supplement (Unicode block)}}
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Bamum
|rangestart = A6A0
|rangeend = A6FF
|script1 = Bamum
|alphabets = Bamum
|5_2 = 88
|note = {{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}
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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.
{{Unicode chart Bamum}}
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bamum block:
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| Version | {{nobr|Final code points}} | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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| rowspan="12" | 5.2 | rowspan="12" | U+A6A0..A6F7 | rowspan="12" | 88 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06313-riley-cameroon.pdf L2/06-313]}} | {{Citation|title=Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon|date=2006-09-21|first=Charles|last=Riley}} | |
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07023-bamum-report.pdf L2/07-023]}} | {{Citation|title=Towards the Encoding of the Bamum Script in the UCS|date=2007-01-19|first=Charles|last=Riley}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07015.htm L2/07-015]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #110 Minutes|date=2007-02-08|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=Bamum (C.8)}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07105-n3213.pdf L2/07-105]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3213.pdf N3213] | {{Citation|title=Proposed block allocation Cyrillic / Bamum|date=2007-02-23|first=Asmus|last=Freytag}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07024r-n3209r-bamum.pdf L2/07-024R]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3209.pdf N3209R] | {{Citation|title=Preliminary proposal for encoding the Bamum script in the BMP|date=2007-03-21|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|author-link1=Michael Everson|first2=Charles|last2=Riley}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.pdf N3353 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27|date=2007-10-10|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M51.5}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07118.htm L2/07-118R2]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #111 Minutes|date=2007-05-23|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=111-C17}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07268-n3253.pdf L2/07-268]}} | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.pdf N3253 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27|date=2007-07-26|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M50.32}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07239-remove-bamum.pdf L2/07-239]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3298.pdf N3298] | {{Citation|title=Request to Remove Bamum from Amendment 5|date=2007-07-30|first=Deborah|last=Anderson}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07225.htm L2/07-225]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #112 Minutes|date=2007-08-21|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=C.18}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08350-n3522-bamum.pdf L2/08-350]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3522.pdf N3522] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP|date=2008-10-14|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Charles|last2=Riley|first3=Konrad|last3=Tuchscherer|author-link3=Konrad Tuchscherer}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08412-n3553.pdf L2/08-412]}} | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3553.pdf N3553 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3553.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53|date=2008-11-05|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=M53.15}} | |||
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