Elymaic

Elymaic alphabet
Elymaic alphabet;
Script type	Abjad
Period	2nd century BCE — early 3rd century CE
Direction	Right-to-left script
Languages	Achaemenid Aramaic
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic script Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Elymaic alphabet; ; ; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Elym (128), Elymaic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Elymaic
Unicode range	U+10FE0–U+10FFF

The Elymaic alphabet is a right-to-left, non-joining abjad.¹ It is derived from the Aramaic alphabet.² Elymaic was used in the ancient state of Elymais,¹ which was a semi-independent state of the 2nd century BCE to the early 3rd century CE, frequently a vassal under Parthian control, in the present-day region of Khuzestan, Iran (Susiana).³

Unicode

The Elymaic alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2019 with the release of version 12.0.

The Unicode block for Elymaic is U+10FE0–U+10FFF:

Elymaic^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+10FEx	𐿠‎	𐿡‎	𐿢‎	𐿣‎	𐿤‎	𐿥‎	𐿦‎	𐿧‎	𐿨‎	𐿩‎	𐿪‎	𐿫‎	𐿬‎	𐿭‎	𐿮‎	𐿯‎
U+10FFx	𐿰‎	𐿱‎	𐿲‎	𐿳‎	𐿴‎	𐿵‎	𐿶‎
Notes 1.^As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

Pandey, Anshuman (2017-10-23). "L2/17226R2: Proposal to encode the Elymaic script in Unicode" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89. ISBN 978-0195079937.
Hansman, John F. "ELYMAIS". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2012-12-24.

[L217226-1] Pandey, Anshuman (2017-10-23). "L2/17226R2: Proposal to encode the Elymaic script in Unicode" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. Retrieved 2018-09-15.

[WWS-2] Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89. ISBN 978-0195079937.

[Hansman-3] Hansman, John F. "ELYMAIS". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2012-12-24.

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