Dogra is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

for the Dogri script (also known as ''Dogra Akkhar'' script), for writing the

Dogri language Dogri ( Name Dogra Akkhar: ; Devanagari: डोगरी; Nastaliq: ; ) is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in adjoining regions of western Himachal Pr ...

in Jammu and Kashmir in the northern part of the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...

. The

Takri The Tākri script (Takri (Chamba): ; Takri (Jammu/Dogra): ; sometimes called Tankri ) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. It is derived from the Sharada script formerly employed for Kashmiri. It is the sister script ...

script version of Jammu is known as Dogra Akkhar. Dogra

Unicode

The Dogra block was added to

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, wh ...

in June, 2018 with the release of version 11.0. The block is named Dogra, at U+11800–U+1184F, and contains 60 characters:

History

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

References

{{Reflist Unicode blocks Dogri language