# Old South Arabian (Unicode block)

Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.
U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.
Old South Arabian Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+10A6x | 𐩠 | 𐩡 | 𐩢 | 𐩣 | 𐩤 | 𐩥 | 𐩦 | 𐩧 | 𐩨 | 𐩩 | 𐩪 | 𐩫 | 𐩬 | 𐩭 | 𐩮 | 𐩯 |
| U+10A7x | 𐩰 | 𐩱 | 𐩲 | 𐩳 | 𐩴 | 𐩵 | 𐩶 | 𐩷 | 𐩸 | 𐩹 | 𐩺 | 𐩻 | 𐩼 | 𐩽 | 𐩾 | 𐩿 |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old South Arabian block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/98-036 | N1689 | Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/99-224 | N2097, N2025-2 | Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | | N2133 | Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/07-240 | N3309 | Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/07-287 | N3296 | Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-044 | N3395 | Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-003 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Old South Arabian", UTC #114 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-348 | N3517 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-161R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C19", UTC #115 Minutes, Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly. |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.05", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/08-361 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C18", UTC #117 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 5.2 | U+10A60..10A7F | 32 | L2/09-104 | | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F] |
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