Old Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters for a group of related, non-cursive Sogdian writing systems used to write historic Sogdian in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.

Block

Old Sogdian[1][2] (PDF)
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U+10F0x𐼀‎𐼁‎𐼂‎𐼃‎𐼄‎𐼅‎𐼆‎𐼇‎𐼈‎𐼉‎𐼊‎𐼋‎𐼌‎𐼍‎𐼎‎𐼏‎
U+10F1x𐼐‎𐼑‎𐼒‎𐼓‎𐼔‎𐼕‎𐼖‎𐼗‎𐼘‎𐼙‎𐼚‎𐼛‎𐼜‎𐼝‎𐼞‎𐼟‎
U+10F2x𐼠‎𐼡‎𐼢‎𐼣‎𐼤‎𐼥‎𐼦‎𐼧‎
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old Sogdian block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
11.0U+10F00..10F2740Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "13. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", UTC #150 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", UTC #153 Minutes

Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Old Sogdian - .