Mandaic 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
Mandaic script used for writing the historic Eastern Aramaic, also called Classical Mandaic, and the modern Neo-Mandaic language.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mandaic block:
Typefaces
Mandaic
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands ...
s developed by Ardwan Alsabti include:
*Mandaicana (2011), one of the first Mandaic typefaces
*Ardwan Malka (2011)
*Englaiscana (2011)
*Ardwan Lidzbarski (2018), based on the Mandaic handwriting of
Mark Lidzbarski
*Ardwan Manuscript (2019), a cursive font based on the handwriting of
Mandaic manuscripts
*Ardwan Drower (2021), based on the Mandaic handwriting of
E. S. Drower
Ethel Stefana Drower ( Stevens; full name: Ethel May Stefana Drower; 1 December 1879 – 27 January 1972) was a British cultural anthropologist, orientalist and novelist who studied the Middle East and its cultures.Christa Müller-Kessler, Drowe ...
References
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Unicode blocks
Mandaic language