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Bamum

U+A6A0 – U+A6FF   (42656–42751)

The Bamum range was introduced with version 5.2.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The Bamum phonetic script was invented around 1895 for the minority Bamum language in Cameroon. Historical characters can be found in the Bamum Supplement range.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

There are no Unicode fonts designed specifically for Bamum.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA6A0.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
42656A6A0BAMUM LETTER A
42657A6A1BAMUM LETTER KA
42658A6A2BAMUM LETTER U
42659A6A3BAMUM LETTER KU
42660A6A4BAMUM LETTER EE
42661A6A5BAMUM LETTER REE
42662A6A6BAMUM LETTER TAE
42663A6A7BAMUM LETTER O
42664A6A8BAMUM LETTER NYI
42665A6A9BAMUM LETTER I
42666A6AABAMUM LETTER LA
42667A6ABBAMUM LETTER PA
42668A6ACBAMUM LETTER RII
42669A6ADBAMUM LETTER RIEE
42670A6AEBAMUM LETTER LEEEE
42671A6AFBAMUM LETTER MEEEE
42672A6B0BAMUM LETTER TAA
42673A6B1BAMUM LETTER NDAA
42674A6B2BAMUM LETTER NJAEM
42675A6B3BAMUM LETTER M
42676A6B4BAMUM LETTER SUU
42677A6B5BAMUM LETTER MU
42678A6B6BAMUM LETTER SHII
42679A6B7BAMUM LETTER SI
42680A6B8BAMUM LETTER SHEUX
42681A6B9BAMUM LETTER SEUX
42682A6BABAMUM LETTER KYEE
42683A6BBBAMUM LETTER KET
42684A6BCBAMUM LETTER NUAE
42685A6BDBAMUM LETTER NU
42686A6BEBAMUM LETTER NJUAE
42687A6BFBAMUM LETTER YOQ
42688A6C0BAMUM LETTER SHU
42689A6C1BAMUM LETTER YUQ
42690A6C2BAMUM LETTER YA
42691A6C3BAMUM LETTER NSHA
42692A6C4BAMUM LETTER KEUX
42693A6C5BAMUM LETTER PEUX
42694A6C6BAMUM LETTER NJEE
42695A6C7BAMUM LETTER NTEE
42696A6C8BAMUM LETTER PUE
42697A6C9BAMUM LETTER WUE
42698A6CABAMUM LETTER PEE
42699A6CBBAMUM LETTER FEE
42700A6CCBAMUM LETTER RU
42701A6CDBAMUM LETTER LU
42702A6CEBAMUM LETTER MI
42703A6CFBAMUM LETTER NI
42704A6D0BAMUM LETTER REUX
42705A6D1BAMUM LETTER RAE
42706A6D2BAMUM LETTER KEN
42707A6D3BAMUM LETTER NGKWAEN
42708A6D4BAMUM LETTER NGGA
42709A6D5BAMUM LETTER NGA
42710A6D6BAMUM LETTER SHO
42711A6D7BAMUM LETTER PUAE
42712A6D8BAMUM LETTER FU
42713A6D9BAMUM LETTER FOM
42714A6DABAMUM LETTER WA
42715A6DBBAMUM LETTER NA
42716A6DCBAMUM LETTER LI
42717A6DDBAMUM LETTER PI
42718A6DEBAMUM LETTER LOQ
42719A6DFBAMUM LETTER KO
42720A6E0BAMUM LETTER MBEN
42721A6E1BAMUM LETTER REN
42722A6E2BAMUM LETTER MEN
42723A6E3BAMUM LETTER MA
42724A6E4BAMUM LETTER TI
42725A6E5BAMUM LETTER KI
42726A6E6BAMUM LETTER MO
42727A6E7BAMUM LETTER MBAA
42728A6E8BAMUM LETTER TET
42729A6E9BAMUM LETTER KPA
42730A6EABAMUM LETTER TEN
42731A6EBBAMUM LETTER NTUU
42732A6ECBAMUM LETTER SAMBA
42733A6EDBAMUM LETTER FAAMAE
42734A6EEBAMUM LETTER KOVUU
42735A6EFBAMUM LETTER KOGHOM
ꛕ꛰42736ꛕ꛰A6F0BAMUM COMBINING MARK KOQNDON (combined with nga)
ꛕ꛱42737ꛕ꛱A6F1BAMUM COMBINING MARK TUKWENTIS (combined with nga)
42738A6F2BAMUM NJAEMLI
42739A6F3BAMUM FULL STOP
42740A6F4BAMUM COLON
42741A6F5BAMUM COMMA
42742A6F6BAMUM SEMICOLON
42743A6F7BAMUM QUESTION MARK

Copyright © 2009–2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.2.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2009 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2009.

Created 4th October 2009   Last updated 7th November 2010

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