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.

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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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Supplementary Multilingual Plane contains Phoenician block