Indic Unicode
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Indic Unicode refers to the sections of Unicode
Unicode
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 related to Indic scripts. As of Unicode version 6.0 the following Indic Scripts have been encoded:
  • Balinese
    Balinese script
    The Balinese alphabet is an abugida that was used to write the Balinese language, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the Indonesian island of Bali. The use of the Balinese script has mostly been replaced by the Roman alphabet. Although it is learned in school, few...

     (1B00..1B7F)
  • Batak (1BC0..1BFF)
  • Baybayin
    Baybayin
    Baybayin , is a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system. It is a member of the Brahmic family and is recorded as being in use in the 16th century...

     (Tagalog) (1700..171F)
  • Bengali
    Bengali script
    The Bengali alphabet is the writing system for the Bengali language. The script with variations is used for Assamese and is basis for Meitei, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Kokborok, Garo and Mundari alphabets. All these languages are spoken in the eastern region of South Asia. Historically, the script has...

     or Eastern Nagari
    Eastern Nagari script
    The Eastern Nagari script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts which use is associated with the two main languages Assamese and Bengali and other related variants such as, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Maithili, Mising, Meitei Manipuri, Sylheti, and Chittagonian...

     (0980..09FF)
  • Brahmi
    Brāhmī script
    Brāhmī is the modern name given to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of scripts. The best-known Brāhmī inscriptions are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka in north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE. These are traditionally considered to be early known examples of Brāhmī writing...

     (11000..1107F)
  • Buhid
    Buhid script
    Buhid, is an indigenous Brahmic script of the Philippines, closely related to Baybayin, and is used today by the Mangyans to write their language, Buhid.- Unicode :Buhid script was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2002 with the release of version 3.2....

     (1740..175F)
  • Burmese (Myanmar)
    • Myanmar (1000..109F)
    • Myanmar Extended-A (AA60..AA7F)
  • Cham (AA00..AA5F)
  • Devanagari
    Devanagari
    Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

    • Devanagari (0900..097F)
    • Devanagari Extended (A8E0..A8FF)
    • Vedic Extensions (1CD0..1CFF)
    • Common Indic Number Forms (A830..A83F)
  • Gujarati
    Gujarati script
    The Gujarati script , which like all Nāgarī writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati and Kutchi languages...

     (0A80..0AFF)
  • Gurmukhi
    Gurmukhi script
    Gurmukhi is the most common script used for writing the Punjabi language. An abugida derived from the Laṇḍā script and ultimately descended from Brahmi, Gurmukhi was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji, in the 16th century. The whole of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji's 1430...

     (0A00..0A7F)
  • Hanunó'o
    Hanunó'o script
    Hanunó’o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines and is used by the Mangyan people of southern Mindoro to write the Hanunó’o language. It is an abugida descended from the Indic scripts, closely related to Baybayin, and is famous for being written vertical but written upward, rather than...

     (Hanunoo) (1720..173F)
  • Javanese
    Javanese script
    The Javanese alphabet, natively known as Hanacaraka or Carakan , known by the Sundanese people as Cacarakan is the pre-colonial script used to write the Javanese language....

     (A980..A9DF)
  • Kaithi
    Kaithi
    Kaithi , also called "Kayathi" or "Kayasthi", is the name of a historical script used widely in parts of North India, primarily in the former North-Western Provinces, Oudh and Bihar...

     (11080..110CF)
  • Kannada
    Kannada script
    The Kannada script is an alphasyllabary of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of southern India and also Sanskrit in the past. The Telugu script is derived from Old Kannada, and resembles Kannada script...

     (0C80..0CFF)
  • Kayah Li
    Kayah Li script
    The Kayah Li alphabet is used to write the Kayah languages Eastern Kayah Li and Western Kayah Li, which are members of Karenic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are also known as Red Karen and Karenni...

     (A900..A92F)
  • Khmer
    Khmer script
    The Khmer script is an alphasyllabary script used to write the Khmer language . It is also used to write Pali among the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand....

    • Khmer (1780..17FF)
    • Khmer Symbols (19E0..19FF)
  • Lao (0E80..0EFF)
  • Lepcha
    Lepcha script
    The Lepcha script, or Róng script is an abugida used by the Lepcha people to write the Lepcha language. Unusually for an abugida, syllable-final consonants are written as diacritics.-History:...

     (1C00..1C4F)
  • Limbu
    Limbu script
    The Limbu script is used to write the Limbu language. The Limbu script is an abugida derived from the Tibetan script.-History:According to traditional histories, the Limbu script was first invented in the late 9th century by King Sirijonga Haang, then fell out of use, to be reintroduced in the 18th...

     (1900..194F)
  • Lontara
    Lontara script
    The Lontara script is some sort of moon speak traditionally used for the Bugis language, Makassarese language, and Mandar languages of Sulawesi in modern Indonesia. It is also known as the Buginese script. It was largely replaced by the Latin alphabet during the period of Dutch colonization...

     (Buginese) (1A00..1A1F)
  • Malayalam
    Malayalam script
    The Malayalam script is a Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language—which is the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala, spoken by 36 million people in the world. Like many other Indic scripts, it is an abugida, or a writing system that is partially “alphabetic” and...

     (0D00..0D7F)
  • Meitei Mayek (Meetei Mayek) (ABC0..ABFF)
  • New Tai Lue (1980..19DF)
  • Oriya
    Oriya script
    The Oriya script or Utkala Lipi or Utkalakshara is used to write the Oriya language, and can be used for several other Indian languages, for example, Sanskrit.- History :...

     (0B00..0B7F)
  • Phags-pa (A840..A87F)
  • Rejang
    Rejang script
    The Rejang script, sometimes spelt Redjang and locally known as Surat Ulu , is an abugida of the Brahmic family, and is related to other scripts of the region, like Batak, Buginese, and others. Rejang is a member of the closely related group of Surat Ulu scripts that include the script variants of...

     (A930..A95F)
  • Saurashtra
    Saurashtra script
    Saurashtra is a script used to write the Saurashtra language. Its usage has declined and Tamil script and Latin are now used more commonly.The Saurashtra Language is written in its own script. Because this is a minority language not taught in schools, people learn to write in Sourashtra Script...

     (A880..A8DF)
  • Sinhala (0D80..0DFF)
  • Sundanese
    Sundanese script
    Sundanese script Sundanese script Sundanese script (Aksara Sunda, is a writing system which is used by some Sundanese people. It is built based on Old Sundanese script (Aksara Sunda Kuna) which was used by ancientSundanese between 14th and 18th centuries....

     (1B80..1BBF)
  • Sylheti Nagari
    Sylheti Nagari
    Sylheti Nagari or Syloti Nagri is the original script used for writing the Sylheti language. It is an almost extinct script, this is because the Sylheti Language itself was reduced to only dialect status after Bangladesh gained independence and because it did not make sense for a dialect to have...

     (Syloti Nagri) (A800..A82F)
  • Tagbanwa (1760..177F)
  • Tai Dam (Tai Viet) (AA80..AADF)
  • Tai Le
    Tai Le script
    Tai Le is the name of Tai Nüa script, the script used for the Tai Nüa language, given by Microsoft.-Unicode:Tai Le script was added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2003 with the release of version 4.0....

     (1950..197F)
  • Tai Tham (1A20..1AAF)
  • Tamil
    Tamil script
    The Tamil script is a script that is used to write the Tamil language as well as other minority languages such as Badaga, Irulas, and Paniya...

     (0B80..0BFF)
  • Telugu
    Telugu script
    Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a language found in the South-Central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh as well as several other neighboring states. The Telugu script is derived from the Bhattiprolu script...

     (0C00..0C7F)
  • Thai (0E00..0E7F)
  • Tibetan
    Tibetan script
    The Tibetan alphabet is an abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Denzongkha, Ladakhi language and sometimes the Balti language. The printed form of the alphabet is called uchen script while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday...

    (0F00..0FFF)

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