Cuneiform (Unicode block)
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See also: Early Dynastic Cuneiform (Unicode block) and Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (Unicode block)
In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP):
- U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform
- U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
- U+12480–U+1254F Early Dynastic Cuneiform
Quick Facts Range, Plane ...
Cuneiform | |
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Range | U+12000..U+123FF (1,024 code points) |
Plane | SMP |
Scripts | Cuneiform |
Major alphabets | Sumerian Akkadian Elamite Hittite Hurrian |
Assigned | 922 code points |
Unused | 102 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
5.0 (2006) | 879 (+879) |
7.0 (2014) | 921 (+42) |
8.0 (2015) | 922 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: [1][2] |
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The sample glyphs in the chart file published by the Unicode Consortium[3] show the characters in their Classical Sumerian form (Early Dynastic period, mid 3rd millennium BCE). The characters as written during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE, during which the vast majority of cuneiform texts were written, are considered font variants of the same characters.