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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Phoenician block canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
assignedInUnicodeVersion Unicode 5.0
belongsToStandardBody Unicode Consortium
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
directionality right-to-left
encodingModel one character per consonant letter
encodingPurpose historic script
geographicUsageRegion Eastern Mediterranean
Levant
linked to: Levant region
hasGeneralCategory Letter
Number
Punctuation
hasISO15924Code Phnx
hasUnicodePropertyScriptValue Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
notUsedFor modern everyday writing
numericSystemType additive numeral system
plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane
primaryUse epigraphic transcription
scholarly study
proposalDocument N2746
relatedScript Aramaic script
Greek script
Hebrew script
script Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
scriptAge Bronze Age
Iron Age
scriptDirection right-to-left
standardizedVariantSupport no
unicodeRangeEnd U+1091F
unicodeRangeStart U+10900
usageStatus historic
usedForLanguage Canaanite languages
Phoenician language
Punic language
writingSystemFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic
writingSystemType abjad

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Supplementary Multilingual Plane contains Phoenician block