The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the
Rohingya language. Rohingya was first written in the 19th century with a version of the
Perso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed, based on the
Urdu alphabet.
In the 1980s,
Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues created the suitable
phonetic script
Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or ''phones'') by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the I ...
based on Arabic letters; it has been compared to the
N’ko script. The script also includes a set of decimal numbers.
Characters
Alphabet and pronunciation
Consonants
Vowels
Numerals
Unicode
The Hanifi Rohingya script was added to the
Unicode Standard in June 2018 with the release of version 11.0. Proposals to include it in Unicode were written by linguist Anshuman Pandey.
The Unicode block for Hanifi Rohingya is U+10D00–U+10D3F and contains 50 characters:
Fonts
Google's Noto Sans has developed a Rohingya script font called ''Noto Sans Hanifi Rohingya'', available a
GitHub
Rohingya keyboard

A virtual keyboard was developed by
Google for the Rohingya language in 2019 and allows users to type directly in the Rohingya script. The Rohingya Unicode keyboard layout can be foun
here
References
Rohingya people
Alphabets
Writing systems of Asia
Writing systems introduced in 1980
Arabic script
Right-to-left writing systems
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