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Arabic Extended-A

Field	Value
rangestart	08A0
rangeend	08FF
script1	Arabic (95 char.)
script2	Common (1 char.)
alphabets	African languages
Bashkir
Belarusian
Berber
Chechen
Crimean Tatar
Hindko
Lak
Philippine languages
Punjabi
Rohingya
Tatar
Arwi
6_1	39
7_0	8
8_0	3
9_0	23
11_0	1
13_0	10
14_0	12
note

Bashkir Belarusian Berber Chechen Crimean Tatar Hindko Lak Philippine languages Punjabi Rohingya Tatar Arwi Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:

Version	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
6.1	U+08A0, 08A2..08AC, 08E4..08EF, 08F4..08FE	35		[N3882](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3882.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc))
U+08F0..08F3	4
	[N3816](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3816.pdf)
	[N3791](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3791.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3803.doc))
	[N3920](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3920.pdf)
7.0	U+08A1	1		[N3882](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3882.pdf)
	[N3988](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3988.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc))
	[N4103](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf)
U+08AD..08B1	5
	[N4065](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4065.pdf)
	[N4071](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4071.pdf), [N4072](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4072.pdf)
	[N4103](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf)
U+08B2	1		[N4271](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4271.pdf)
U+08FF	1		[N3989](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3989.pdf)
	[N4103](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf)
8.0	U+08B3..08B4, 08E3	3
	[N4474](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4474.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4553..doc))
9.0	U+08B6..08BA	5
	[N4498](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4498.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4553..doc))
U+08BB..08BD	3
	[N4597](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4597.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4603.doc))
U+08D4	1
	[N4592](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4592.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4603.doc))
U+08D5..08E2	14
	[N4589](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4589.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4603.doc))
	[N4739](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4739-M64-Minutes.zip)
11.0	U+08D3	1
13.0	U+08BE..08C2	5		[N4961](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4961-18032-hindko.pdf)
	[N4962](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4962-18174-hindko.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.doc))
U+08C3..08C4	2		[N4959](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4959-18094-arabic-hausa.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.doc))
U+08C5..08C6	2		[N5049](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5049-19118r-jeem-with-3-dots.pdf)
	[N5122](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5122-M68-Minutes.pdf)
U+08C7	1
14.0	U+08B5	1
U+08C8	1
U+08C9..08D2	10		[N5142](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5142-19306-quranic-additions.pdf)

References

"Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
"Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
The Unicode Consortium. [https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0], (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. {{ISBN. 978-1-936213-01-6), [https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch08.pdf Chapter 8]
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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