Vai
RangeU+A500..U+A63F
(320 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsVai
Major alphabetsVai
Assigned300 code points
Unused20 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)300 (+300)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Block

Vai[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A50x
U+A51x
U+A52x
U+A53x
U+A54x
U+A55x
U+A56x
U+A57x
U+A58x
U+A59x
U+A5Ax
U+A5Bx
U+A5Cx
U+A5Dx
U+A5Ex
U+A5Fx
U+A60x
U+A61x
U+A62x
U+A63x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.1U+A500..A62B300L2/04-374Riley, Charles (2004-11-06), Status report on Vai encoding
L2/05-053Riley, Charles L.; Rivera, José R.; Sherman, Tombekai V.; Glavy, Jason (2005-01-31), Preliminary codechart for encoding Vai into the SMP of the UCS
L2/05-159RRN2948REverson, Michael; Riley, Charles; Rivera, José (2005-08-01), Proposal to add the Vai script to the BMP of the UCS
L2/05-180Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Vai (C.2)", UTC #104 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
L2/06-136McGowan, Rick (2006-04-18), Regarding WG2 N3081, proposal for additions to Vai
L2/06-120RN3081REverson, Michael (2006-04-23), Proposal for addition of Vai characters to the UCS
L2/06-108Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.12", UTC #107 Minutes
N3103 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.3, M48.5c [U+A555]", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
L2/07-104N3243REverson, Michael (2007-04-18), Proposal to add additional historic syllables for Vai
L2/07-118R2Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/05-171Riley, Charles (2008-07-21), List of Contributors and Participants in the Vai Proposal for Unicode
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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