Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode
Transcript of Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode
L215-278 2015-10-27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode
Anshuman PandeyDepartment of Linguistics
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley California USA
anshumanpandeyberkeleyedu
October 27 2015
1 Introduction
This is a proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode It replaces ldquoPreliminary Proposal toEncode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) Major changes from the preliminary proposal include the additionof the letter renaming of some characters changes to character properties the reallocation of the scriptblock to a new range within the SMP and the unification of the Rohingya tatweel with the correspondingArabic character The glyphs used in the code chart are sourced with permission from the ldquoRohingya GonyaLeyka Nooriesrdquo typeface developed by Muhammad Noor and contains new glyphs produced by the proposalauthor
2 Background
The Hanifi Rohingya script 68895688876889368889688986888268893) ruwainggya 68895688716889368889688986888268893 ruhainggya) is used for writing Ro-hingya (ISO 639-3 rhg) an Indo-Aryan language spoken by one million people in Myanmar (RakhineState) and by two-hundred thousand people in Bangladesh (Coxrsquos Bazaar District) Rohingya is also spokenin several other countries as a result of the dispersion of the Rohingya community on account of persecutionin Myanmar The Rohingya language is closely related to Bengali There are four different scripts used forwriting the Rohingya language Burmese Arabic the Latin-based lsquoRohingylishrsquo and the script describedhere
The script was developed by Maulana Mohammed Hanif and others in the 1980s A chart showing the scriptas approved by a steering committee is shown in figure 1 It is modeled upon the Arabic script and showsthe influence of other scripts However it is a constructed script and has no direct genetic affiliation to otherscripts
There is limited information available on the Rohingya script in English Most of the materials on the scriptare written in the Rohingya language The Rohingya Language Committee and the Rohingya EducationBoard Myanmar have published multilingual primers of the script (see figures 3ndash16) There are also instruc-tional videos available on YouTube (see figures 23ndash24) Educational materials and newspapers are publishedthe script Two typefaces have been developed by Muhammad Noor (see table 4)
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3 Script Details
31 Structure
Hanifi Rohingya is an alphabetic script modeled upon Arabic It is written right to left Consonant letterspossess an inherent vowel ɔ The inherent vowel is changed by placing a vowel mark after the consonantA mark called sakin (= sukun) is placed after a letter to silence the inherent vowel Tones are indicating usingcombining signs placed above a letter or vowel mark Nasalization is indicated using a mark placed after aletter or vowel mark Consonant gemination is marked using the sign tassi (= shadda)
The script is structurally conjoining Letters join to following letters at the right edge In several hand-writtensources the conjunction between letters is broken at the baseline This does not indicate any particular joiningproperty of the unattached letter to the left of break In texts printed using digitized fonts the connectionsbetween letters at the baseline is consistently maintained
32 Character Names
Names for characters are based upon commonLatin transliterations given in various script primers The Latinnames for most characters are uniform across different publications however there are different spellings forcertain characters For example is named lsquordarsquo in one source and rarsquo in another is alternatelycalled lsquoxarsquo is also called lsquogharsquo The is known as gan and is known as nayya In caseswhere there are multiple names for a character an appropriate name has been chosen based upon consultationwith the user community Indigenous names are given as annotations in the names list
33 Letters
There are 28 letters
Character name Joining Value
dual ɔ ʔ
dual b
dual p
dual t
dual ʈ
dual ɟ
dual c
dual h
dual x
dual f
dual d
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dual ɖ
dual ɾ
dual ɽ
dual z
dual s
dual ʃ
dual k
dual g
dual l
dual m
dual n
dual ʋ v
dual u
dual j
dual i
dual ŋ
dual ɲ
The letter is a vowel carrier It represents the vowel ɔ The letters (lsquokinna warsquo) and(lsquokinna yarsquo) are used for representing u and i in diphthongs (see section 36)
34 Sukun
The following character is used for indicating a bare consonant
Character name Joining Value
right mdash
It is called sakin in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0652 It is placed after a letterin the encoded sequence as shown below
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b 68892 gt gt
p 68892 gt gt
t 68892 gt gt
It is generally used with letters that occur in isolation or at the end of a word There is no formal conventionregarding its usage and it may be considered optional For instance the charts in figures 3 4 and 5 show
written with certain consonants yet the chart in figure 6 shows the sign written with every consonantletter When does occur it is used generally with the following letters
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
35 Alternate forms of letters
The following alternate forms are proposed for encoding
Character name Joining Value
68903 right d
right l
right m
These are variant forms of the letters used in word-final position or for representing theletter is isolated contexts
Letter + sukun Alternate representation
final da 68892 68903
final la 68892
final ma 68892
The alternate final forms are semantically identical to sequences of the respective letter + but as thetwo occur concurrently in various sources they need to be represented separately
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36 Vowel marks
There are 5 vowel marks
Character name Joining Value
dual a
dual i
dual u
dual e
dual o
When vowels occur in word-initial position they are represented using a combination of the letter and avowel mark
a gt gt
ā 68893 gt gt
i 68894 gt gt
u 68895 gt gt
e 68896 gt gt
o 68897 gt gt
When modifying a consonant they are placed after the letter
bā 68893 gt gt
bi 68894 gt gt
bu 68895 gt gt
be 68896 gt gt
bo 68897 gt gt
Script charts show the vowel marks independently unaccompanied by the letter These cases are intendedfor illustrating the mark and are not indicative of actual usage the same applies to the other marks shownalongside the vowel marks in charts Independent or initial vowels are expressed in combination with theletter
Diphthongs are represented by placing and after a vowel mark Therepresents the sound i and represents u
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
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7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
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Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
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Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
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Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
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Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
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Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
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Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
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Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
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Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
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Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
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Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
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Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
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Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
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Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
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Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
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Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
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Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
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Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
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Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
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Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
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Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
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Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
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Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
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Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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3 Script Details
31 Structure
Hanifi Rohingya is an alphabetic script modeled upon Arabic It is written right to left Consonant letterspossess an inherent vowel ɔ The inherent vowel is changed by placing a vowel mark after the consonantA mark called sakin (= sukun) is placed after a letter to silence the inherent vowel Tones are indicating usingcombining signs placed above a letter or vowel mark Nasalization is indicated using a mark placed after aletter or vowel mark Consonant gemination is marked using the sign tassi (= shadda)
The script is structurally conjoining Letters join to following letters at the right edge In several hand-writtensources the conjunction between letters is broken at the baseline This does not indicate any particular joiningproperty of the unattached letter to the left of break In texts printed using digitized fonts the connectionsbetween letters at the baseline is consistently maintained
32 Character Names
Names for characters are based upon commonLatin transliterations given in various script primers The Latinnames for most characters are uniform across different publications however there are different spellings forcertain characters For example is named lsquordarsquo in one source and rarsquo in another is alternatelycalled lsquoxarsquo is also called lsquogharsquo The is known as gan and is known as nayya In caseswhere there are multiple names for a character an appropriate name has been chosen based upon consultationwith the user community Indigenous names are given as annotations in the names list
33 Letters
There are 28 letters
Character name Joining Value
dual ɔ ʔ
dual b
dual p
dual t
dual ʈ
dual ɟ
dual c
dual h
dual x
dual f
dual d
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dual ɖ
dual ɾ
dual ɽ
dual z
dual s
dual ʃ
dual k
dual g
dual l
dual m
dual n
dual ʋ v
dual u
dual j
dual i
dual ŋ
dual ɲ
The letter is a vowel carrier It represents the vowel ɔ The letters (lsquokinna warsquo) and(lsquokinna yarsquo) are used for representing u and i in diphthongs (see section 36)
34 Sukun
The following character is used for indicating a bare consonant
Character name Joining Value
right mdash
It is called sakin in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0652 It is placed after a letterin the encoded sequence as shown below
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b 68892 gt gt
p 68892 gt gt
t 68892 gt gt
It is generally used with letters that occur in isolation or at the end of a word There is no formal conventionregarding its usage and it may be considered optional For instance the charts in figures 3 4 and 5 show
written with certain consonants yet the chart in figure 6 shows the sign written with every consonantletter When does occur it is used generally with the following letters
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
35 Alternate forms of letters
The following alternate forms are proposed for encoding
Character name Joining Value
68903 right d
right l
right m
These are variant forms of the letters used in word-final position or for representing theletter is isolated contexts
Letter + sukun Alternate representation
final da 68892 68903
final la 68892
final ma 68892
The alternate final forms are semantically identical to sequences of the respective letter + but as thetwo occur concurrently in various sources they need to be represented separately
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36 Vowel marks
There are 5 vowel marks
Character name Joining Value
dual a
dual i
dual u
dual e
dual o
When vowels occur in word-initial position they are represented using a combination of the letter and avowel mark
a gt gt
ā 68893 gt gt
i 68894 gt gt
u 68895 gt gt
e 68896 gt gt
o 68897 gt gt
When modifying a consonant they are placed after the letter
bā 68893 gt gt
bi 68894 gt gt
bu 68895 gt gt
be 68896 gt gt
bo 68897 gt gt
Script charts show the vowel marks independently unaccompanied by the letter These cases are intendedfor illustrating the mark and are not indicative of actual usage the same applies to the other marks shownalongside the vowel marks in charts Independent or initial vowels are expressed in combination with theletter
Diphthongs are represented by placing and after a vowel mark Therepresents the sound i and represents u
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
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Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
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Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
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Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
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Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
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Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
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Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
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Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
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Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
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Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
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Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
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Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
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dual ɖ
dual ɾ
dual ɽ
dual z
dual s
dual ʃ
dual k
dual g
dual l
dual m
dual n
dual ʋ v
dual u
dual j
dual i
dual ŋ
dual ɲ
The letter is a vowel carrier It represents the vowel ɔ The letters (lsquokinna warsquo) and(lsquokinna yarsquo) are used for representing u and i in diphthongs (see section 36)
34 Sukun
The following character is used for indicating a bare consonant
Character name Joining Value
right mdash
It is called sakin in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0652 It is placed after a letterin the encoded sequence as shown below
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b 68892 gt gt
p 68892 gt gt
t 68892 gt gt
It is generally used with letters that occur in isolation or at the end of a word There is no formal conventionregarding its usage and it may be considered optional For instance the charts in figures 3 4 and 5 show
written with certain consonants yet the chart in figure 6 shows the sign written with every consonantletter When does occur it is used generally with the following letters
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
35 Alternate forms of letters
The following alternate forms are proposed for encoding
Character name Joining Value
68903 right d
right l
right m
These are variant forms of the letters used in word-final position or for representing theletter is isolated contexts
Letter + sukun Alternate representation
final da 68892 68903
final la 68892
final ma 68892
The alternate final forms are semantically identical to sequences of the respective letter + but as thetwo occur concurrently in various sources they need to be represented separately
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36 Vowel marks
There are 5 vowel marks
Character name Joining Value
dual a
dual i
dual u
dual e
dual o
When vowels occur in word-initial position they are represented using a combination of the letter and avowel mark
a gt gt
ā 68893 gt gt
i 68894 gt gt
u 68895 gt gt
e 68896 gt gt
o 68897 gt gt
When modifying a consonant they are placed after the letter
bā 68893 gt gt
bi 68894 gt gt
bu 68895 gt gt
be 68896 gt gt
bo 68897 gt gt
Script charts show the vowel marks independently unaccompanied by the letter These cases are intendedfor illustrating the mark and are not indicative of actual usage the same applies to the other marks shownalongside the vowel marks in charts Independent or initial vowels are expressed in combination with theletter
Diphthongs are represented by placing and after a vowel mark Therepresents the sound i and represents u
5
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
7
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
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Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
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Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
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Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
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Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
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Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
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Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
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Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
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Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
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Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
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Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
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Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
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Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
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Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
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Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
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Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
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Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
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Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
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Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
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Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
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Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
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Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
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Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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b 68892 gt gt
p 68892 gt gt
t 68892 gt gt
It is generally used with letters that occur in isolation or at the end of a word There is no formal conventionregarding its usage and it may be considered optional For instance the charts in figures 3 4 and 5 show
written with certain consonants yet the chart in figure 6 shows the sign written with every consonantletter When does occur it is used generally with the following letters
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
68892
35 Alternate forms of letters
The following alternate forms are proposed for encoding
Character name Joining Value
68903 right d
right l
right m
These are variant forms of the letters used in word-final position or for representing theletter is isolated contexts
Letter + sukun Alternate representation
final da 68892 68903
final la 68892
final ma 68892
The alternate final forms are semantically identical to sequences of the respective letter + but as thetwo occur concurrently in various sources they need to be represented separately
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36 Vowel marks
There are 5 vowel marks
Character name Joining Value
dual a
dual i
dual u
dual e
dual o
When vowels occur in word-initial position they are represented using a combination of the letter and avowel mark
a gt gt
ā 68893 gt gt
i 68894 gt gt
u 68895 gt gt
e 68896 gt gt
o 68897 gt gt
When modifying a consonant they are placed after the letter
bā 68893 gt gt
bi 68894 gt gt
bu 68895 gt gt
be 68896 gt gt
bo 68897 gt gt
Script charts show the vowel marks independently unaccompanied by the letter These cases are intendedfor illustrating the mark and are not indicative of actual usage the same applies to the other marks shownalongside the vowel marks in charts Independent or initial vowels are expressed in combination with theletter
Diphthongs are represented by placing and after a vowel mark Therepresents the sound i and represents u
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
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10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
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10D39
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
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Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
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Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
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Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
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Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
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Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
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Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
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Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
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Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
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Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
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Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
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Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
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Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
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Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
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Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
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Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
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Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
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Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
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Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
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Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
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Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
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Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
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Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
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Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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36 Vowel marks
There are 5 vowel marks
Character name Joining Value
dual a
dual i
dual u
dual e
dual o
When vowels occur in word-initial position they are represented using a combination of the letter and avowel mark
a gt gt
ā 68893 gt gt
i 68894 gt gt
u 68895 gt gt
e 68896 gt gt
o 68897 gt gt
When modifying a consonant they are placed after the letter
bā 68893 gt gt
bi 68894 gt gt
bu 68895 gt gt
be 68896 gt gt
bo 68897 gt gt
Script charts show the vowel marks independently unaccompanied by the letter These cases are intendedfor illustrating the mark and are not indicative of actual usage the same applies to the other marks shownalongside the vowel marks in charts Independent or initial vowels are expressed in combination with theletter
Diphthongs are represented by placing and after a vowel mark Therepresents the sound i and represents u
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
10
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
11
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
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10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
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1
2
3
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6
7
8
9
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C
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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bai 68889 gt gt
bāi 6889368889 gt gt
bui 6889568889 gt gt
boi 6889768889 gt gt
bou 6889768887 gt gt
37 Nasalization mark
The following character is used for marking nasalization
Character name Joining Value
dual n
It is placed after the consonant or vowel mark to be nasalized
baṃ 68898 gt gt
bāṃ 6889368898 gt gt
baṃba 6889868865 gt gt
38 Tonal Signs
There are three tonal signs
-1
68900 -2
68901 -3
Their properties are as follows
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
R name type Arabic analogue
-1 hārbāy short high tone +08EA
+08ED
68900 -1 ṭelā long falling tone +08EB
+08EE
68901 -1 ṭānā long rising tone +08EC
+08EF
The placement of tonal signs in the available sources is imprecise and not uniform In some instances theyare placed between the consonant and a vowel mark in others they are positioned above the consonant andin others upon the vowel compare the placement of tones 2 and 3 in Figure 10 or compare lines 1 and and2 and the examples in Figure 13) These may be considered stylistic choices In the encoded representationthe tone signs are to be placed after a vowel mark if it is present
baacute 68893 gt -1gt
baa 68893 gt 68900 -2gt
baacutea 68893 gt 68901 -3gt
39 Gemination sign
The following character is used for indicating consonant gemination
68902
It is called tassi in Rohingya and is similar in function to +0651 It is positioned above theletter that is doubled The is placed after the respective letter in the encodedsequence
baba 68865 gt gt
babba 68865 gt 68902 gt
If there is a vowel mark after the doubled letter then the is placed before the vowel mark in theencoded sequence
babbā 68865 gt 68902 gt
310 Digits
There is a full set of decimal digits
7
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
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Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
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Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
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G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
As in Arabic the Rohingya digits are written from left to right The Arabic style ٠ is attested as a glyphicvariant for 68912
311 Punctuation
There is no script-specific punctuation The +002E is commonly used as are Arabic signs suchas the +060C and +061F
312 lsquoTatweelrsquo
A tatweel-like character is used for graphical elongation or justification The ـ +0640should be used for representing tatweel in Rohingya
313 Collation
The sort order for Hanifi Rohingya is as follows
lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt 68903 lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt lt lt lt
lt lt lt
4 Character Properties
41 Unicode Character Data
10D00HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ALo0ALN10D01HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BALo0ALN10D02HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PALo0ALN10D03HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TALo0ALN10D04HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTALo0ALN10D05HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JALo0ALN
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10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
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10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
10
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
11
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Printed 27-Oct-2015 1
10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
10D06HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CALo0ALN10D07HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HALo0ALN10D08HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHALo0ALN10D09HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FALo0ALN10D0AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DALo0ALN10D0BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDALo0ALN10D0CHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RALo0ALN10D0DHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRALo0ALN10D0EHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZALo0ALN10D0FHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SALo0ALN10D10HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHALo0ALN10D11HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KALo0ALN10D12HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GALo0ALN10D13HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LALo0ALN10D14HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MALo0ALN10D15HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NALo0ALN10D16HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WALo0ALN10D17HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WALo0ALN10D18HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YALo0ALN10D19HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YALo0ALN10D1AHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGALo0ALN10D1BHANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYALo0ALN10D1CHANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUNLo0ALN10D1DHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ALo0ALN10D1EHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ILo0ALN10D1FHANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ULo0ALN10D20HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK ELo0ALN10D21HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK OLo0ALN10D22HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNALo0ALN10D23HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1Mn230NSMN10D24HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2Mn230NSMN10D25HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3Mn230NSMN10D26HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDAMn230NSMN10D27HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DALo0ALN10D28HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LALo0ALN10D29HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MALo0ALN10D30HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERONd0AN000N10D31HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONENd0AN111N10D32HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWONd0AN222N10D33HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREENd0AN333N10D34HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOURNd0AN444N10D35HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVENd0AN555N10D36HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIXNd0AN666N10D37HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVENNd0AN777N10D38HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHTNd0AN888N10D39HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINENd0AN999N
42 Arabic Shaping Data
10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A D No_Joining_Group10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK SUKUN R No_Joining_Group10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A D No_Joining_Group10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA D No_Joining_Group10D23 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-1 U No_Joining_Group10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA U No_Joining_Group10D27 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA R No_Joining_Group
9
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
10
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
11
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
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Printed 27-Oct-2015 2
10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA R No_Joining_Group10D30 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO U No_Joining_Group10D39 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE U No_Joining_Group
43 Script Extensions
The following characters should be extended for usage in Rohingya
0640 Lm ARABIC TATWEEL060C Po ARABIC COMMA061B Po ARABIC SEMICOLON061F Po ARABIC QUESTION MARK
44 lsquoConfusablersquo Characters
Some Rohingya letters resemble those found of Arabic Attention to these lsquoconfusablesrsquo is particularlyimportant because Arabic is commonly used in Rohingya documents
10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA 0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA 06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA 06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA 0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA FECB ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA 0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA FEE3 ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA FE91 ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA 0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA KHANNA FEE7 ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A FEBB ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM10D24 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-2 0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE10D25 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TONE-3 0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE10D26 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA 0651 ARABIC SHADDA
5 References
noorismail52 2011a ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 1flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=w4h6w6NyvOU
mdashmdashmdash 2011b ldquoRohingya mother Language (letters) Part 3flvrdquo httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pylvjjTQG8c
Pandey Anshuman 2012 ldquoPreliminary Proposal to Encode the Rohingya Scriptrdquo (L212-214) June 202012 httpwwwunicodeorgL2L201212214-rohingyapdf
Rohingya Education Board Myanmar Ruhainggya Zubanor Fonna Hisab [ldquoScript of the Rohingya lan-guage Countingrdquo] Ek kelasottu dui kelas lego ar foro [ldquoFrom Class 1 to Class 2 Read and Writerdquo]
Rohingya Language Committee [A] Kayda Ruwainggya Zubanor [Primer of the Rohingya Language]
mdashmdashmdash [B] Ruwaingya Zubanor Foyla Kitab [First Book of the Rohingya Language]
10
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
11
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Printed 27-Oct-2015 1
10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
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C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
6 Acknowledgments
I am thankful toMattias Persson and Ian James for bringing the Rohingya script to my attention Lorna Priestintroduced me to James Lloyd-Williams who very generously provided copies of Rohingya primers I am allthe more grateful to Muhammad Noor who provided me with numerous books and other materials writtenand printed in the script This proposal would not be possible without the assistance of these individuals
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Hu-manities which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the Universityof California Berkeley) Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publicationdo not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
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10D39
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
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10D3FHanifi Rohingya10D00
10D0 10D1 10D2 10D3
$
$ 68900
$ 68901
$ 68902
68903
68912
68913
68914
68915
68916
68917
68918
68919
68920
68921
10D00
10D01
10D02
10D03
10D04
10D05
10D06
10D07
10D08
10D09
10D0A
10D0B
10D0C
10D0D
10D0E
10D0F
10D10
10D11
10D12
10D13
10D14
10D15
10D16
10D17
10D18
10D19
10D1A
10D1B
10D1C
10D1D
10D1E
10D1F
10D20
10D21
10D22
10D23
10D24
10D25
10D26
10D27
10D28
10D29
10D30
10D31
10D32
10D33
10D34
10D35
10D36
10D37
10D38
10D39
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1
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3
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6
7
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9
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C
D
E
F
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10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
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Printed 27-Oct-2015 2
10D39Hanifi Rohingya10D00
Final letters10D27 68903 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER DA10D28 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER LA10D29 HANIFI ROHINGYA FINAL LETTER MA
Digits10D30 68912 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ZERO10D31 68913 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT ONE10D32 68914 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT TWO10D33 68915 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT THREE10D34 68916 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FOUR10D35 68917 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT FIVE10D36 68918 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SIX10D37 68919 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT SEVEN10D38 68920 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT EIGHT10D39 68921 HANIFI ROHINGYA DIGIT NINE
Letters10D00 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER A10D01 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER BA10D02 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER PA10D03 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TA10D04 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER TTA10D05 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER JA10D06 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER CA10D07 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER HA10D08 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KHA10D09 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER FA10D0A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DA10D0B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER DDA10D0C HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RA10D0D HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER RRA10D0E HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER ZA10D0F HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SA10D10 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SHA10D11 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER KA10D12 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER GA10D13 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER LA10D14 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER MA10D15 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NA10D16 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER WA10D17 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL WA
= kinna wa10D18 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER YA10D19 HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER SMALL YA
= kinna ya10D1A HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NGA
= gan10D1B HANIFI ROHINGYA LETTER NYA
= nayya
Sukun10D1C HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SUKUN
= sakin
Vowel marks10D1D HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK A
= aa-for10D1E HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK I
= i-for10D1F HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK U
= u-for10D20 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK E
= e-for10D21 HANIFI ROHINGYA VOWEL MARK O
= o-for
Nasalization mark10D22 HANIFI ROHINGYA MARK NA KHANNA
Tone marks10D23 $ HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN HARBHAY
bull short high tone10D24 $ 68900 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN THELA
bull long falling tone10D25 $ 68901 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN TANA
bull long rising tone
Gemination sign10D26 $ 68902 HANIFI ROHINGYA SIGN SHADDA
= tassi
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 1 A document containing the Rohingya script as finalized by Hanif and others on February19 1980 with signatures of the individuals involved in the creation of the script
14
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 2 Description of some characters attached to the official chart shown in figure 1
15
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 3 Chart of Rohingya script from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti(A) 1)
16
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 4 Chart showing Rohingya letters and signs with Urdu and Burmese names
17
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 5 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Arabic correspondences and names in Latin translit-eration
18
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 6 Chart showing Rohingya letters with Latin transliteration
19
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 7 Page from a Rohingya primer showing Rohingya letters with names in Arabic transliter-ation
20
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 8 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing and
21
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 9 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing
22
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 10 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the method of writing -1 68900 -2 68901 -3 68902
23
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 11 Page from a Rohingya primer describing the use of and
24
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 12 Page from a Rohingya primer showing the use of tatweel
25
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 13 Table showing use of tonal signs from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya ZubanKomiti (A) 11)
26
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 14 Example of running Rohingya text from a hand-written primer (fromRuwainggya ZubanKomiti (B) 1)
27
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 15 Chart of digits from a hand-written primer (from Ruwainggya Zuban Komiti (B) 34)
28
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 16 Excerpt from an primary-level arithmetic book written in Rohingya (from RuwainggyaEducation Board Myanmar 21)
29
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 17 The cover page of Haq-Dar a Rohingya language news weekly (December 5 2002)
30
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 18 The cover page of Serak a Rohingya language news weekly (October 13 2007)
31
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 19 Cover page of History of Arakan
32
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 20 First page of History of Arakan
33
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 21 Cover of World Atlas
34
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 22 Page fromWorld Atlas showing Myanmar with the Arakan region highlighted
35
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
Figure 23 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011a frame 3)
Figure 24 Use of a Rohingya typeface in a digital video (from noorismail52 2011b frame 103)
36
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37
Proposal to encode the Hanifi Rohingya script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey
G K
G K
G K
-1
-2 68900 68900
-3 68901 68901
68902 68902
68912 68912
68913 68913
68914 68914
68915 68915
68916 68916
68917 68917
68918 68918
68919 68919
68920 68920
68921 68921
Table 4 Comparison of digitized Rohingya typefaces ldquoRohingya Gonya Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoGrsquo)and ldquoRohingya Kuna Leyka Nooriesrdquo (lsquoKrsquo) designed by Muhammad Noor
37