Soyombo (Unicode block)

{{Infobox Unicode block

|blockname = Soyombo

|rangestart = 11A50

|rangeend = 11AAF

|script1 = Soyombo

|alphabets =

|10_0 = 80

|11_0 = 1

|12_0 = 2

|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}}

}}

Soyombo is a Unicode block containing characters from the Soyombo alphabet, which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635–1723) in 1686 to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. In addition, this block includes the Soyombo symbol on the flag of Mongolia.

Block

The Soyombo block was added to Unicode in June 2017 with version 10.0:{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/|title=Unicode 10.0.0|website=www.unicode.org}}

{{Unicode chart Soyombo}}

History

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

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Version{{nobr|Final code points}}CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
rowspan="27" | 10.0rowspan="27" width="180" | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2rowspan="27" | 80{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98358-n1855-soyombo.pdf L2/98-358]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1855.pdf N1855]{{Citation|title=Addition of Soyombo script on ISO/IEC 10646|date=1998-08-21|first=T. K.|last=Sato|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/n1903.rtf L2/99-010]}}{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.pdf N1903 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903.htm html], [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1903w97.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25|date=1998-12-30|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=9.2}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00055-n2163.pdf L2/00-055]}}{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2163.pdf N2163 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2163.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts)|date=2000-01-06|first=T. K.|last=Sato|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10399-soyombo.pdf L2/10-399]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3949.pdf N3949]{{Citation|title=Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script|date=2010-10-30|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10467-soyombo-x-d.pdf L2/10-467]}}{{Citation|title=Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin|date=2010-11-11|first=Shriramana|last=Sharma|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11054-soyombo-vowels.pdf L2/11-054]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3986.pdf N3986]{{Citation|title=Determining the Encoding Model for Soyombo Vowels|date=2011-02-05|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11125-n4026-soyombo.pdf L2/11-125]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4026.pdf N4026]{{Citation|title=Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode Soyombo|date=2011-04-25|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11412-soyombo.pdf L2/11-412]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4142.pdf N4142]{{Citation|title=Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script|date=2011-10-25|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13069-soyombo.pdf L2/13-069]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4414.pdf N4414]{{Citation|title=Revised Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script|date=2013-04-22|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13075-soyombo-cluster-model.pdf L2/13-075]}}{{Citation|title=Comments on the proposed Soyombo encoding|date=2013-04-25|first=Shriramana|last=Sharma|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13086-script-recmnd.pdf L2/13-086]}}{{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals|date=2013-04-26|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Rick|last2=McGowan|first3=Ken|last3=Whistler|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|ref=none|section=6}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4403.pdf N4403 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4403.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14|date=2014-01-28|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=10.2.5 Soyombo script}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15004r-soyombo.pdf L2/15-004]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4655-Soyombo.pdf N4655]{{Citation|title=Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script|date=2015-01-26|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15009-n4653-zanabazar.pdf L2/15-009]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4653-Comments%20on%20Proposals%20of%20Zanabazar%20Square%20and%20Soyombo%20Script%20from%20Mongolian%20Experts.pdf N4653]{{Citation|title=Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts|date=2015-01-26|first1=Toshiya|last1=Suzuki|first2=Takashi|last2=Matsukawa|first3=Hitoshi|last3=Kuribayashi|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15045-script-rec.pdf L2/15-045]}}{{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals|date=2015-01-30|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Rick|last3=McGowan|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|first5=Andrew|last5=Glass|ref=none|section=8. Soyombo}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15094-response-mongolia-japan.pdf L2/15-094]}}{{Citation|title=Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square|date=2015-02-09|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15017.htm L2/15-017]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #142 Minutes|date=2015-02-12|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=D.7}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15149-script-rec.pdf L2/15-149]}}{{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals|date=2015-05-03|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Rick|last3=McGowan|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|first5=Anshuman|last5=Pandey|first6=Andrew|last6=Glass|ref=none|section=9. Soyombo}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15249r-mongolia-mtg-rept.pdf L2/15-249R]}}{{Citation|title=Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan)|date=2015-10-17|first=Deborah|last=Anderson|ref=none}}
[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4699-Zanabazar-Soyombo-Adhoc.pdf N4699]{{Citation|title=Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan)|date=2015-10-17|first=Deborah|last=Anderson|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15247-soyombo-chart-revised.pdf L2/15-247]}}{{Citation|title=Revised code chart and names list for Soyombo|date=2015-10-20|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15248-soyombo-cmt.pdf L2/15-248]}}{{Citation|title=The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project|date=2015-10-20|first1=R.|last1=Otgonbaatar|first2=S.|last2=Demberel|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15262-n4436-disp-cmt.pdf L2/15-262]}}{{Citation|title=Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5)|date=2015-10-26|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15254.htm L2/15-254]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #145 Minutes|date=2015-11-16|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 145-C18|quote=Approve new Soyombo repertoire, codepoints, names, and glyphs, on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303.}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15336-cmt-15249-punct.pdf L2/15-336]}}{{Citation|title=Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation|date=2015-12-07|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16037-script-rec.pdf L2/16-037]}}{{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals|date=2016-01-22|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Rick|last3=McGowan|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|first5=Andrew|last5=Glass|first6=Laurențiu|last6=Iancu|ref=none|section=8.c, 9}}
[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4739-M64-Minutes.zip N4739]{{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64|date=2016-08-31|ref=none|section=M64.05k}}
rowspan="2" | 11.0rowspan="2" | U+11A9Drowspan="2" | 1{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16016-soyombo-pluta.pdf L2/16-016]}}{{Citation|title=Proposal to encode the Soyombo mark PLUTA|date=2016-01-06|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16004.htm L2/16-004]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #146 Minutes|date=2016-02-01|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=D.10.1}}
rowspan="5" | 12.0rowspan="5" | U+11A84..11A85rowspan="5" | 2{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15331-soyombo-jihva-upadh.pdf L2/15-331]}}{{Citation|title=Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo|date=2015-12-03|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16037-script-rec.pdf L2/16-037]}}{{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals|date=2016-01-22|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Rick|last3=McGowan|first4=Roozbeh|last4=Pournader|first5=Andrew|last5=Glass|first6=Laurențiu|last6=Iancu|ref=none|section=8. Soyombo}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17235-soyombo-jihva-upadh.pdf L2/17-235]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4867-17235-soyombo-jihva-upadh.pdf N4867]{{Citation|title=Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo|date=2017-07-21|first=Anshuman|last=Pandey|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17222.htm L2/17-222]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #152 Minutes|date=2017-08-11|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=D.5}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.pdf N4953 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66|date=2018-03-23|ref=none|section=M66.16g}}
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