Warang Citi script

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The Warang Citi script is an alphabetic writing system created in the 20th century for the Ho language spoken by the Ho people of eastern India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Warang Citi script canonical 4
Warang Citi Unicode block 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
addedToUnicodeVersion Unicode 7.0
associatedEthnicity Ho people
communityMovement Ho language revitalization
competesWith Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Odia script
country India
creationPeriod 20th century
creator Lako Bodra
Pandit Lako Bodra
designedFor Ho phonology
Munda language family
designedToPreserve Ho culture
Ho language
directionOfWriting left-to-right
hasAlternativeName Varang Citi
Varang Kshiti
Warang Chiti
hasConsonants yes
hasDigitalEncoding Unicode standard
linked to: Unicode Standard
hasDistinctLettersFor consonants
vowels
hasEducationalUse regional schools
hasVowels yes
ISO15924Code Wara
primaryFunction writing Ho language
region eastern India
scriptType alphabetic
scriptUserCommunity Ho speakers
timeOfOrigin mid-20th century
UnicodeBlock Warang Citi
UnicodeRange U+118A0–U+118FF
usedBy Ho people
usedIn Assam
India
Jharkhand
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

West Bengal
writingMedium digital text
manuscripts
printed materials
writingSystemFamily independent script
writingSystemFor Ho language
writingSystemStatus minority script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ho scriptUsed Warang Citi script
Ho language writingSystem Warang Citi script
Warang Citi block hasAlias Warang Citi Unicode block
linked to: Warang Citi script
Lako Bodra notableWork Warang Citi script
subject linked to: Lako Bodra (for Warang Citi)
Lako Bodra developed Warang Citi script
subject linked to: Lako Bodra (for Warang Citi)