Rma script

{{Short description|Abugida of the Qiang language}}

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{{Infobox writing system

| name = Rma script

| altname = Rrmea bapa

| type = alphabet with abugida-like characteristics

| languages = {{hlist | Qiang language }}

| time = 2017–present

| creator = Wei Jiuqiao ({{langx|zh|魏久乔}})

| unicode = proposed{{cite web |last1=Chan |first1=Eiso |last2=Wei |first2=Jiuqiao |last3=Sims |first3=Nathaniel |title=Preliminary proposal to encode Rma script to UCS |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22130-rma-script.pdf |website=Unicode |publisher=Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set |access-date=13 November 2024 |language=en |date=6 June 2022}} (U+16140 - U+1617F)

| iso15924 =

| sample =

| direction = left to right, new line underneath

}}

File:Qiang Rma.png

The Rma script ({{langx|cng|Rrmea bapa}}) is an alphabet with some abugida-like features{{cite web |title=Qiang Script |url=https://weijiuqiao.github.io/qiang_script/ |website=weijiuqiao.github.io |access-date=13 November 2024}} devised for the Qiang language, spoken in Sichuan Province in the southwest of China. It was finalized in 2017 by scholar Wei Jiuqiao.{{cite web |title=Qiang / Rma Script |url=https://omniglot.com/writing/rma.htm |website=omniglot.com |access-date=13 November 2024}}

The script fits the phonology of the standardized language of the Northern Qiang variety of Qugu, officially written with the Roman script using the Qiang Phonetic Alphabet Scheme. Whereas Northern Qiang varieties have length contrasts, Southern Qiang varieties have phonemic tone contrasts; thus a version with tonal diacritics has also been produced, and has been used for the Southern Qiang variety of Luobuzhai ({{lang-zh|s=萝卜寨|p=Luóbozhài}}) in Wenchuan County. It has gained substantial recognition among the Qiang people, and various books have been published in it.

In 2022, a preliminary proposal was made to encode this system in the Universal Character Set of Unicode.