Elymaic

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]

Elymaic alphabet
Script type	Abjad
Time period	2nd century BCE — early 3rd century CE
Direction	Right-to-left script
Languages	Achaemenid Aramaic[1]
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

Unicode

Main article: Elymaic (Unicode block)

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)

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1

2

3

4

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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 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

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.
2. Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 89. ISBN 978-0195079937.
3. Hansman, John F. "ELYMAIS". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2012-12-24.