Osmanya

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Osmanya is a Unicode block containing characters of the Osmanya alphabet, which was devised in the 20th century for writing the Somali language.

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Osmanya canonical 5

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Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
alphabetDevisedInCentury 20th century
assignedInUnicodeVersion Unicode 4.0
blockNameInUnicodeData OSMANYA
blockRangeEnd U+104AF
blockRangeStart U+10480
blockSize 48 code points
blockType alphabetic script block
containedInStandard Unicode Standard
encodingStandard ISO/IEC 10646
hasCharacterCategory digits
letters
punctuation
hasDigitSet Osmanya digits
hasWritingSystemProperty case-less
name Osmanya
plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane
primaryUsageRegion Somali diaspora
Somalia
relatedScript Arabic script for Somali
Latin script for Somali
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptRepresented Osmanya alphabet
linked to: Osmanya script
scriptStatus historic
limited use
scriptType alphabet
scriptUsageContext Somali language materials
historical documents
linguistic research
usedForLanguage Somali
writingSystemFamily indigenous Somali script
writingSystemFor Somali language
linked to: Somali

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Referenced by (5)

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

Osmanya block name Osmanya
Unicode 3.1 addsScript Osmanya
Unicode 3.2 includesScript Osmanya
Osmanya name Osmanya