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Kaithi (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
SMP

Assigned
  
66 code points

Scripts
  
Range
  
U+11080..U+110CF(80 code points)

Major alphabets
  
BhojpuriMagahiAwadhiMaithiliUrdu

Unused
  
14 reserved code points

Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, and other Hindi-related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.

History

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

References

Kaithi (Unicode block) Wikipedia


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