Sorang Sompeng script is used to write in
Sora, a
Munda language
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with 300,000 speakers in
India
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. The script was created by
Mangei Gomango in 1936 and is used in religious contexts.
[
] He was familiar with
Odia,
Telugu and
English
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.
The
Sora language
Sora is a south Munda language of the Austroasiatic language of the Sora people, an ethnic group of eastern India, mainly in the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Sora contains very little formal literature but has an abundance of folk tale ...
is also written in the Latin, Odia and Telugu scripts.
Sorang Sompeng Script
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Letters
The values of the letters are as follows:
Digits
Gallery
File:Saura Script invented by Mangei Gomango.jpg, Sorang Sompeng and Odia scripts for the Sora language.
Unicode
Sorang Sompeng script was added to the Unicode
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Standard in January, 2012 with the release of version 6.1.
Block
The Unicode block for Sorang Sompeng script, called Sora Sompeng, is U+110D0–U+110FF:
Fonts
Microsoft Windows made a font called Nirmala UI Nirmala UI is an Indic scripts typeface created by Tiro Typeworks and commissioned by Microsoft. It was first released with Windows 8 in 2012 as a UI font and currently supports languages using Bengali–Assamese, Devanagari, Kannada, Gujarati, ...
, which supports Sora Sompeng. Google Noto is also making a font, called Noto Sans Sora Sompeng. Here's a beta version of it
References
Alphabets
Munda scripts
Writing systems introduced in 1936
Constructed scripts
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