Lisu Supplement is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing supplementary characters of the

Fraser alphabet The Fraser or Old Lisu script is an artificial abugida invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar and improved by the missionary James O. Fraser, to write the Lisu language. It is a single-case ( unicameral) alphabet. It ...

, which is used to write the

Lisu language Lisu ( Fraser alphabet: , or ; New Lisu script: ; zh, c=傈僳语, p=Lìsùyǔ; my, လီဆူဘာသာစကား, ) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan (Southwestern China), Northern Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand and ...

. This is a supplement to the main Lisu block, with currently only a single character used for the Naxi language assigned to it.

Block

History

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

References

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