The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the Rohingya language. Rohingya was first written in the 19th century with a version of the Arabic script, Perso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed, based on the Urdu alphabet. In the 1980s, Mohammad Hanif (scholar), Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues created the suitable phonetic script based on Arabic letters; it has been compared to the N’ko script. The script also includes a set of decimal numbers.

Characters

Alphabet and pronunciation

Consonants

Vowels

Numerals

Unicode

The Hanifi Rohingya script was added to the Unicode, Unicode Standard in June 2018 with the release of version 11.0. Proposals to include it in Unicode were written by linguist Anshuman Pandey. The Unicode block for Hanifi Rohingya is U+10D00–U+10D3F and contains 50 characters:

Fonts

Google's Noto Sans has developed a Rohingya script font called ''Noto Sans Hanifi Rohingya'', available a
GitHub

Rohingya keyboard

A virtual keyboard was developed by Google for the Rohingya language in 2019 and allows users to type directly in the Rohingya script. The Rohingya Unicode keyboard layout can be foun
here

References

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