Cham 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 ad ...
containing characters of the
Cham script
The Cham script is a Brahmic abugida used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by some 245,000 Chams in Vietnam and Cambodia. It is written horizontally left to right, just like other Brahmic abugidas.
History
The Cham script i ...
, which is used for writing the
Cham language
Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken by the Chams of Southeast Asia. It is spoken primarily in the territory of the former Kingdom of Champa, which spanned modern Southern Vietnam, as well ...
, primarily used for the Eastern dialect in
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...
and
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
.
A separate block for Western Cham, used in Cambodia, was first proposed to Unicode in 2016. As of May 2022 it is still being finalized.
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{{Unicode chart Cham
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cham block:
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N1203
, , {{Citation, title=Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva, date=1995-05-03, first1=V. S., last1=Umamaheswaran, first2=Mike, last2=Ksar, section=6.1.2.2
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, {{nobr, L2/97-143 ,
N1578
, , {{Citation, title=Cham encoding discussion, date=1997-04-06, first=Michael, last=Everson, author-link=Michael Everson
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, {{nobr, L2/97-124 ,
, , {{Citation, title=Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646, date=1997-05-01, first=Michael, last=Everson
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, {{nobr, L2/97-288 ,
N1603
, , {{Citation, title=Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997, date=1997-10-24, first=V. S., last=Umamaheswaran, section=8.22
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L2/99-081
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N1960
, , {{Citation, title=Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts, date=1999-02-01, first=Michael, last=Everson
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N1997
, , {{Citation, title=Response to Michael Everson, date=1999-02-26, first=Ngo Than, last=Nhan
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L2/06-257
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N3120
, , {{Citation, title=Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS, date=2006-08-06, first=Michael, last=Everson
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} , , , , {{Citation, title=UTC #108 Minutes, date=2006-08-17, first=Lisa, last=Moore, section=C.14
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N3153 (pdf
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, , {{Citation, title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29, date=2007-02-16, first=V. S., last=Umamaheswaran, section=M49.18
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References
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Unicode blocks