# Devanagari Extended

Devanagari Extended is a Unicode block containing cantillation marks for writing the Samaveda, and nasalization marks for the Devanagari script.

## Block

Devanagari Extended Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+A8Ex | ꣠ | ꣡ | ꣢ | ꣣ | ꣤ | ꣥ | ꣦ | ꣧ | ꣨ | ꣩ | ꣪ | ꣫ | ꣬ | ꣭ | ꣮ | ꣯ |
| U+A8Fx | ꣰ | ꣱ | ꣲ | ꣳ | ꣴ | ꣵ | ꣶ | ꣷ | ꣸ | ꣹ | ꣺ | ꣻ | ꣼ | ꣽ | ꣾ | ꣿ |
| 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 Devanagari Extended block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/00-144 | | Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Vedic Accents (untitled, undated early draft) |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/00-178 | | Everson, Michael (2000-04-22), Encoding Vedic Accents |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/00-155 | | Moore, Lisa (2000-05-31), Comments on Encoding Vedic Accents Proposal |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/03-066 | | New Proposal for Vedic Characters and Symbols, 2003-02-26 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/03-067 | | Joshi, R. K. (2003-02-27), Vedic Code Set; a draft |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/03-102 | | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/03-101.2 | | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Devanagari document], 2003-03-04 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/04-398 | | Proposal to encode Vedic accents, etc., 2004-11-12 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/05-063 | | Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Devanagari", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/05-070 | | McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/05-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/05-228 | | Muller, Eric (2005-08-11), Analysis of a TDIL proposal for Vedic |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/06-185 | | Proposal for Encoding of Vedic Characters & Symbols in Unicode, 2006-05-10 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/06-384 | | Lata, Swaran (2006-10-25), Letter from T. N. Dharmadhikari in support of Vedic repertoire |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-060 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-02-02), Vedic Unicode Workshop Report |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-095R | N3235R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-230 | N3290 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-07-26), Revised proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-254 | | Bhushan, E. K. Bharat (2007-08-01), Unicode for Vedic Sanskrit (letter to Mark Davis) |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-262 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-07), Outline of the development of WG2/n3290 = L2/07-230 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-271 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-08-08), Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230) |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-272 | | Muller, Eric (2007-08-10), "11", Report of the South Asia subcommittee |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-396 | | Joshi, R. K.; Irani, Alka (2007-10-10), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Character and Symbols in Unicode |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-386 | | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Comments on Comparison of proposed characters in Lata 2006 (L2/06-185) with Scharf and Everson WG2/n3290 (L2/07-230) |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-388 | | Joshi, R. K. (2007-10-17), Following observations have been made with reference to the document No. L2/07-095 dated: 2007-04-13 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-343 | N3366 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-10-18), Proposal to encode 55 characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-394 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Significant differences between L2/07-230 and L2/07-343 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-395 | | Joshi, R. K.; et al. (2007-10-18), Request for feedback on draft proposal for encoding Vaidika characters and symbols in Unicode |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-397 | | Joshi, R. K.; et al. (2007-10-18), Vaidika Vowels and Consonants |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-400 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Comments on R. K. Joshi's documents L2/07-386 and L2/07-388 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-401 | | Scharf, Peter (2007-10-18), Equivalences between L2/07-396 and L2/07-343 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/07-345 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), "Consensus 113-C19", UTC #113 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-035 | | Scharf, Peter; Rosenfield, Susan J. (2008-01-22), Vedic Revisions 2008 Jan 14, Revisions to N3366 = L2/07-343 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-042 | | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-23), Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Characters & Symbols in Unicode |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-043 | | Joshi, R. K. (2008-01-28), Vaidika Extensions A & B (Vedic evidence to accompany L2/08-042) |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-092 | N3385 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-01-31), Comparison between two Vedic proposals of January 2008 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-097 | | Amendments to L2/08-042, L2/08-043, 2008-01-31 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-050R | N3383R | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-03-06), Summary proposal to encode characters for Vedic in the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-096 | | Joshi, R. K. (2008-02-02), Comparison of L2/08-042 and L2/08-050 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-110 | | Muller, Eric (2008-02-08), South Asia Subcommittee Report |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-003 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Vedic", UTC #114 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-176 | N3456R | Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-18), Summary of Vedic Characters based on N3385, N3383R, and the Unicode Pipeline |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-196 | | Proposal for Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS, 2008-05-05 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-216 | | Scharf, Peter (2008-05-08), Comments on L2/08-196 regarding the encoding of Sanskrit and Vedic |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-294 | | Scharf, Peter (2008-08-06), Placement of characters in Vedic, Devanagari, and Devanagari Extended blocks |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-317 | | Muller, Eric (2008-08-11), "1.2, 1.3", South Asia Subcommittee Report |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-253R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Vedic (B.15.2, E.1)", UTC #116 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-273R3 | N3488R3 | Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter (2008-08-21), Proposal to encode two characters for Vedic in the UCS |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.03", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 |
| 5.2 | U+A8E0..A8FB | 28 | L2/09-067 | | Lata, Swaran (2009-01-28), Encoding of Vaidika Sanskrit Characters & Symbols in the BMP of UCS |
| 8.0 | U+A8FC | 1 | L2/12-147 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VIII. DEVANAGARI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC |
| 8.0 | U+A8FC | 1 | L2/12-123R | N4260 | Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Proposal to Encode the Sign SIDDHAM for Devanagari |
| 8.0 | U+A8FC | 1 | L2/12-343R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C13", UTC #133 Minutes |
| 8.0 | U+A8FC | 1 | | N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 |
| 8.0 | U+A8FD | 1 | L2/13-056 | N4408 | Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-25), Proposal to Encode the Sign JAIN OM for Devanagari in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 8.0 | U+A8FD | 1 | L2/13-086 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "8", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals |
| 8.0 | U+A8FD | 1 | L2/13-058 | | Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "D.2", UTC #135 Minutes |
| 8.0 | U+A8FD | 1 | | N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.9 Jain Om for Devanagar", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 |
| 11.0 | U+A8FE..A8FF | 2 | L2/15-335 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Proposal to encode the Devanagari letter and vowel sign AY |
| 11.0 | U+A8FE..A8FF | 2 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "2. Devanagari", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 11.0 | U+A8FE..A8FF | 2 | L2/16-004 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.7", UTC #146 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||