Old South Arabian (Unicode block)
{{also|Old North Arabian (Unicode block)}}
{{Infobox Unicode block
|blockname = Old South Arabian
|rangestart = 10A60
|rangeend = 10A7F
|script1 = Old South Arabian
|alphabets = Minean
Sabaean
Qatabanian
Hadramite
Himyaritic
|5_2 = 32
|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}}
}}
Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.
U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.{{cite web|last1=Maktari|first1=Sultan|last2=Mansour|first2=Kamal|title=N3395: Proposal to encode Old South Arabian script|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3395.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2014}}
{{Unicode chart Old South Arabian}}
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old South Arabian block:
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| Version | {{nobr|Final code points}} | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="17" | 5.2 | rowspan="17" | U+10A60..10A7F | rowspan="17" | 32 | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98036.pdf L2/98-036]}} | [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1689.htm N1689] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646|date=1998-01-18|first=Michael|last=Everson|author-link=Michael Everson|ref=none}} |
| {{nobr|L2/98-286}} | [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1703w97.doc N1703] | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20|date=1998-07-02|first1=V. S.|last1=Umamaheswaran|first2=Mike|last2=Ksar|ref=none|section=8.19}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99224.pdf L2/99-224]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2097.pdf N2097], {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2025-2.pdf N2025-2]}} | {{Citation|title=Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set|date=1999-07-23|first=W.|last=Röllig|ref=none}} | |||
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2133.htm N2133] | {{Citation|title=Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097)|date=1999-10-04|ref=none}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00010-n2103.pdf L2/00-010]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2103.pdf N2103] | {{Citation|title=Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16|date=2000-01-05|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=10.4}} | |||
| {{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|ref=none|section=M51.27}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07240-south-arabian.pdf L2/07-240]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3309.pdf N3309] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode South Arabian Script|date=2007-07-30|first1=Sultan|last1=Maktari|first2=Kamal|last2=Mansour|ref=none}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07287-n3296-south-arabian.pdf L2/07-287]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3296.pdf N3296] | {{Citation|title=Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS|date=2007-08-29|first=Michael|last=Everson|ref=none}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08044-osa.pdf L2/08-044]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3395.pdf N3395] | {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script|date=2008-01-28|first1=Sultan|last1=Maktari|first2=Kamal|last2=Mansour|ref=none}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08003.htm L2/08-003]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #114 Minutes|date=2008-02-14|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Old South Arabian}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08318-n3453.pdf L2/08-318]}} | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.pdf N3453 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52|date=2008-08-13|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=M52.16}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08348-ballot-cmt.pdf L2/08-348]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3517.pdf N3517] | {{Citation|title=Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034|date=2008-09-30|first=Deborah|last=Anderson|ref=none}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08161.htm L2/08-161R2]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #115 Minutes|date=2008-11-05|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 115-C19|quote=Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly.}} | ||||
| {{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|ref=none|section=M53.05}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08361.htm L2/08-361]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #117 Minutes|date=2008-12-02|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 117-C18}} | ||||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09234-n3603-wg2-54-min.pdf L2/09-234]}} | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.pdf N3603 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.doc doc]) | {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54|date=2009-07-08|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=M54.03a}} | |||
| {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09104.htm L2/09-104]}} | {{Citation|title=UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes|date=2009-05-20|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 119-C19|quote=Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]}} | ||||
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