Phoenician block
E453711
The Phoenician block is a range of Unicode code points dedicated to representing the characters of the ancient Phoenician alphabet used in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| assignedInUnicodeVersion | Unicode 5.0 ⓘ |
| belongsToStandardBody | Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blockCode | Phoenician ⓘ |
| blockName | Phoenician ⓘ |
| characterCount | 29 ⓘ |
| containsCharacterCategory |
letters
ⓘ
numbers ⓘ punctuation ⓘ |
| containsRepresentativeCharacter |
U+10900 PHOENICIAN LETTER ALF
ⓘ
U+10915 PHOENICIAN NUMBER ONE ⓘ U+1091F PHOENICIAN WORD SEPARATOR ⓘ |
| definedByStandard | The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionality | right-to-left ⓘ |
| encodingModel | one character per consonant letter ⓘ |
| encodingPurpose | historic script ⓘ |
| geographicUsageRegion |
Eastern Mediterranean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGeneralCategory |
Letter
ⓘ
Number ⓘ Punctuation ⓘ |
| hasISO15924Code | Phnx ⓘ |
| hasUnicodePropertyScriptValue | Phoenician NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notUsedFor | modern everyday writing ⓘ |
| numericSystemType | additive numeral system ⓘ |
| plane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
epigraphic transcription
ⓘ
scholarly study ⓘ |
| proposalDocument | N2746 ⓘ |
| relatedScript |
Aramaic script
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greek script ⓘ Hebrew script ⓘ |
| script | Phoenician NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptAge |
Bronze Age
ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| standardizedVariantSupport | no ⓘ |
| unicodeRangeEnd | U+1091F ⓘ |
| unicodeRangeStart | U+10900 ⓘ |
| usageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| usedForLanguage |
Canaanite languages
ⓘ
Phoenician language NERFINISHED ⓘ Punic language ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Northwest Semitic scripts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abjad ⓘ |
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